General Dynamics protested the contract, arguing that DISA improperly evaluated and awarded the contract. But the Government Accountability Office denied the protest in full.

The agency was allowed to continue evaluating proposals but couldn't issue pilot awards while the protest was in effect.

As DOD and Microsoft plan to kick off work under JEDI in less than a month, AWS lawyers will ask the Court of Federal Claims to issue an injunction while it settles the pending bid protest.

U.S. attorneys are once again looking to cut down the company's claims of prejudice by hammering home that it did not meet basic security requirements to qualify for the acquisition.

DOD's Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud acquisition "virtually assures DOD will be locked into legacy cloud for a decade or more," the company argues.