亞馬遜抗議微軟贏得價值100億美元的五角大樓合同

Amazon is protesting the Pentagon’s decision to award a $10 billion cloud-computing contract to Microsoft, citing “unmistakable bias” in the process.

亞馬遜抗議五角大樓將價值100億美元的云計算合同授予微軟的決定，稱這一過程存在“明顯的偏見”。

Amazon’s competitive bid for the “war cloud” project drew criticism from President Donald Trump and its business rivals. The project, formally called the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, pitted leading tech titans Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle and IBM against one another

亞馬遜對“戰(zhàn)爭云”項目的競爭性投標招致了美國總統(tǒng)唐納德·特朗普(Donald Trump)及其商業(yè)競爭對手的批評。這個項目的正式名稱是聯(lián)合企業(yè)防御基礎設施(Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure，簡稱JEDI)，微軟、亞馬遜(Amazon)、甲骨文(Oracle)和IBM等領先的技術巨頭都參與了這個項目。

In a statement Thursday, Amazon said that “numerous aspects” of the bidding process involved “clear deficiencies, errors, and unmistakable bias.” It did not elaborate.

亞馬遜在周四的一份聲明中表示，競標過程的“許多方面”存在“明顯的缺陷、錯誤和明顯的偏見”。聲明沒有詳細說明。

Amazon added that “it’s important that these matters be examined and rectified.”

亞馬遜補充說，“這些問題得到審查和糾正是很重要的。”

Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A Defense Department spokeswoman would only say that the Pentagon won’t speculate on potential litigation.

微軟沒有立即回應置評請求。美國國防部發(fā)言人只表示，五角大樓不會對可能的訴訟進行推測。

Amazon was long thought to be the front-runner in the competition for the huge military contract. Its Amazon Web Services division is far ahead of second-place Microsoft in cloud computing, and Amazon has experience handling highly classified government data.

長期以來，亞馬遜一直被認為是這項巨額軍事合同的領跑者。亞馬遜的網(wǎng)絡服務部門在云計算領域遠遠領先于排名第二的微軟，亞馬遜在處理高度機密的政府數(shù)據(jù)方面也有經(jīng)驗。

It survived earlier legal challenges after the Defense Department eliminated rival bidders Oracle and IBM and whittled the competition down to the two Seattle area tech giants before choosing Microsoft in late October.

早些時候，美國國防部淘汰了競爭對手甲骨文(Oracle)和IBM，并將競爭對手縮小至西雅圖地區(qū)的兩家科技巨頭，之后微軟在10月底選擇了微軟。

Amazon said it filed its protest in the US Court of Federal Claims, which deals with financial claims against the federal government.

亞馬遜表示，它已向美國聯(lián)邦索賠法院(US Court of Federal Claims)提出抗議。聯(lián)邦索賠法院處理針對聯(lián)邦政府的財務索賠。