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A redacted version of Amazon’s lawsuit, unsealed Friday, claims DoD took a series of politically-influenced steps to devalue its bid and elevate Microsoft’s.

Brian Boxman, vice president of Sales Mid Atlantic and Public Sector at Talend, joined host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss how his company can help federal IT professionals mange, collect, cleanse and move large data sets at their agencies.

Amazon filed its promised bid protest lawsuit at the Court of Federal Claims on Friday. The complaint is still under seal, but accompanying documents indicate it will use video evidence suggesting improper influence on the JEDI contract by President Trump.

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Veterans Benefits Administration, under pressure, reverses an Obama-era policy that resulted in Privacy Act violations.

AWS is challenging DoD’s decision to award the contract to Microsoft, saying the contracting process contained “clear deficiencies, errors, and unmistakable bias.”

Oracle is pressing ahead with its legal battle against the multibillion dollar cloud contract despite DoD’s surprise decision to award the deal to Microsoft.

DoD’s chief information officer told lawmakers the White House could not have interfered with the JEDI decision because the identities of the team that made the decision have been kept secret all along.

The Defense Department made its award, but the JEDI story doesn’t end here.

The highly-anticipated cloud computing contract will be worth more than $200 million in its first two years, Defense officials said. But the massive award still faces legal challenges.

Navy ERP, the Navy’s massive enterprise resource planning system, went live in a commercial cloud last week. Officials said it was likely the largest ERP cloud migration in North American history.