By Frank Konkel
opted non to renew an artificial intelligence-based contract—called Project Maven—it held amongst the Pentagon afterward its employees voiced opposition to performing run that could hold out used for lethal purposes.
Bids for JEDI, a hotly contested contract that volition position a unmarried cloud provider inward accuse of caches of hugger-mugger together with altitude hugger-mugger armed forces together with defence data, were due Oct. 12. On that date, a purported grouping of anonymous Microsoft employees voiced opposition to the contract through a Medium weblog post.
Microsoft bid anyway. Amazon Web Services besides bid on the contract, equally did IBM together with Oracle, who bring both filed bid protests against JEDI.
“Microsoft submitted its bid on the JEDI contract on the Oct 12 deadline. While nosotros don’t bring a way to verify the authenticity of this letter, nosotros e'er encourage employees to percentage their views amongst us,” a Microsoft spokesperson said inward a tilt to Nextgov.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shed to a greater extent than low-cal on the company’s thinking equally it relates to Google’s determination together with other potentially controversial regime run inward previously unreported remarks from an Oct. 10 appearance at the the States Naval Academy inward Annapolis, Maryland.
“We're an American fellowship together with a multinational company. We fundamentally rely on the trust inward American values. We fundamentally rely on our flat of regime to engender trust inward everything that nosotros do, non simply inward the the States but across the world,” Nadella said, responding to a inquiry nearly Google’s determination posed past times a Navy midshipman. “We volition bring our ain commission that volition actually straight us inward price of what engagements nosotros create or don't do, together with specially when it comes to the the States together with liberal democracies at large, nosotros volition rely on our democratic procedure together with the institutions that nosotros run amongst together with their ain ethics equally well.”
Nadella said Microsoft has a four-decades-old partnership amongst the Defense Department together with added that the U.S. of A. “armed forces bring a key grounding on what it agency to deploy whatsoever engineering or do which is ethically used.”
Google’s determination to dorsum out of the Pentagon’s Project Maven together with JEDI contracts demo a broader battle betwixt Silicon Valley companies together with the federal government. Last week,one of the altitude acquisition officials at Customs together with Border Protection said political protests against contractors that aid inward some Trump management policies bring croak a “huge problem.” For example, Salesforce together with Palantir bring faced protests over contracts amongst CBP. Such protests drive a politically charged surroundings that could trim down the menstruum of ideas together with talent from the individual sector to government.
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