In August 2019, a system outage of information technology systems disrupted processing of incoming international travelers at airports nationwide for as long as 2.5 hours. Such an outage risks the entry of unauthorized individuals. Keep Reading
The Central Intelligence Agency has awarded its long-awaited Commercial Cloud Enterprise, or C2E, contract to five companies—Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Oracle and IBM. Keep Reading
Oracle has released an out-of-band security alert to address a remote code execution vulnerability—CVE-2020-14750—in Oracle WebLogic Server. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. Keep Reading
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Oracle is seeking to overturn a lower court ruling that found the Defense Department was on solid legal footing when it structured the multibillion dollar cloud contract. Keep Reading
Oracle is also mounting a legal challenge to the cloud contract, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI. Keep Reading
The company heralded the fact that judge found DoD had violated procurement law through its decision to structure JEDI as a single-award, winner-take-all contract. Keep Reading
Counsel said the matter is one of procurement integrity, and that the company intended to take its case to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Keep Reading
DoD will still be "continuing through the technical evaluation process as part of our overall source selection," says CIO. Keep Reading
The Dec. 6 complaint against the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure program comes a month after the GAO dismissed Oracle’s formal protest that the DOD’s winner-take-all contract will unduly restrict competition. Keep Reading
Oracle protested the REAN award on Feb. 20, calling it “an egregious abuse” and “shrouded in secrecy” and charging that REAN “serves as a front for AWS” creating a conflict of interest. Keep Reading