The final principles are mostly copied and pasted from the Defense Innovation Board’s recommendations submitted to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper in October.

The cloud computing company claims there are gaps in the discovery information provided by the Department of Defense about its evaluation of JEDI bids and eventual award to Microsoft.

The Department of Defense CDO will now be housed under the CIO's purview, and Dana Deasy is "considering qualified candidates" for the role, currently held by Michael Conlin.

Once again, JEDI dominated the federal IT headlines with protests, politics and, finally, an award.

The meeting will involve Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, DOD CIO Dana Deasy and others.

DOD designed the JEDI acquisition process so that the contracting officers who made the decision on the contract were kept anonymous and insulated from political influences, according to CIO Dana Deasy.