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Republicans call for Amazon to testify on Pentagon relationship
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Republicans are questioning Amazon’s relationship with the Pentagon after newly released emails show that defense officials praised tech executives vying for a $10 billion contract during the Trump administration.
On Tuesday, _The New York Times_reported on previously unreleased emails that show Pentagon officials applauding Amazon executives while the company sought out a lucrative defense contract between 2017 and 2018. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure project, or JEDI, set out to find a tech company that would move the Defense Department’s computer networks over to the cloud.
In one instance, the_Times_reports that former Trump Defense Secretary Jim Mattis traveled to Silicon Valley to meet with executives from companies...