Air Force Magazine

Oracle Corp appeals a federal claims ruling to deny the company's complaints that the Pentagon is abusing its search for a department-wide cloud platform.

This brings the lawsuit to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In July a federal judge found that Oracle failed to meet certain criteria set out in the Department of Defense's Joint Supervisory Department. Because the company could not meet all of the requirements, the specific court Oracle cannot claim that the Pentagon discriminates against it for other reasons.

"The Court of Federal Claims Opinion in JEDI Bid Protest Describes JEDI Acquisition as Illegal, Despite Dispatch of Protest solely on Oracle's Legal Technique for Lack of Standing," Dorian Daley, Oracle's Attorney General, told Air Force Magazine in a statement dated August 26. absent satisfactory specific, mandatory claims, and the court clearly found that the DOD did not satisfy those requirements. "

Daley added that the claims court recognized" many significant conflicts of interest "that" violate the law and undermines public confidence. "

" As a threshold matter, we believe that the provision of no position is wrong as a matter of law, and the analysis itself in the sense compels a provision that procurement was illegal on several grounds, "Daley said.

The JEDI program aims to build large banks of data servers to provide troves of military information to troops across the globe and in situations where internet connection is not available. The contract can be worth up to $ 1[ads1]0 billion over 10 years, though the Department of Defense is open to several flush suppliers over the program's lifetime.

The Pentagon did not immediately respond to how Oracle's appeal will affect the upcoming contract award to neither Microsoft nor Amazon, which is scheduled for early this fall. IBM also competed for the contract, but is no longer in the running.