Google is making a new overture to the Pentagon, three years after employees at the tech company pressured it to not renew an artificial intelligence contract with the Department of Defense over concerns about a controversial drone program.
Google’s growing cloud unit is now mounting a proposal for a potentially lucrative contract called the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program — a replacement for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract that was awarded to Microsoft Inc. and later canceled after it got locked up in a legal battle with Amazon Web Services. The Pentagon said at the time of JEDI’s cancellation it would launch a new cloud contract to better meet its needs. The 10-year JEDI contract was potentially worth $10 billion as a sole-source vehicle, while its replacement is for a shorter span and will likely be split between multiple vendors.
Google dropped out of the JEDI bidding process after its employees forced the company not to renew its work on Project…
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