Dave Farber
2018-10-15 00:45:10 UTC
Subject: [ NNSquad ] In an Open Letter, Microsoft Employees Urge the Company To Not Bid on the US Military's Project JEDI
Date: October 15, 2018 0:57:14 JST
In an Open Letter, Microsoft Employees Urge the Company To Not Bid on
the US Military's Project JEDI
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/10/14/1359239/in-an-open-letter-microsoft-employees-urge-the-company-to-not-bid-on-the-us-militarys-project-jedi
On Tuesday, Microsoft expressed its intent to bid on the Joint
Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract -- a
contract that represents a $10 billion project to build cloud
services for the Department of Defense. The contract is
massive in scope and shrouded in secrecy, which makes it
nearly impossible to know what technologies Microsoft would be
building for the Department of Defense. At an industry day for
JEDI, DoD Chief Management Officer John H. Gibson II explained
the program's impact, saying, "We need to be very clear. This
program is truly about increasing the lethality of our
department."
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When you've been urging your employees to be ethical, it can be tricky
to get them working on murder machines.
-------------------------------------------Date: October 15, 2018 0:57:14 JST
In an Open Letter, Microsoft Employees Urge the Company To Not Bid on
the US Military's Project JEDI
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/10/14/1359239/in-an-open-letter-microsoft-employees-urge-the-company-to-not-bid-on-the-us-militarys-project-jedi
On Tuesday, Microsoft expressed its intent to bid on the Joint
Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract -- a
contract that represents a $10 billion project to build cloud
services for the Department of Defense. The contract is
massive in scope and shrouded in secrecy, which makes it
nearly impossible to know what technologies Microsoft would be
building for the Department of Defense. At an industry day for
JEDI, DoD Chief Management Officer John H. Gibson II explained
the program's impact, saying, "We need to be very clear. This
program is truly about increasing the lethality of our
department."
- - -
When you've been urging your employees to be ethical, it can be tricky
to get them working on murder machines.
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