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Re:Pentagon cancels $10B cloud contract that Amazon, Microso... by Ericson2314 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:37PM (#27756418)
Custom ASCIs or OS is Cap Ex, and I am saying that part is allowed to be outsourced provided the IP is unencumbered. It's just the operations that must be done in-house.

To avoid some "idiots at the wheel situation", part of the tech transfer exercise will ensure that the deployment isn't too brittle. E.g. the government should be able to make some trivial Kernel modification and redeploy everything without issue. Maybe even also fab and install a slightly modified ASIC too.

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Re:Pentagon cancels $10B cloud contract that Amazon, Microso... by jollybean on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @11:27AM (#27762199)
It has nothing to do with IP it has to do with competency.

Our government is not capable of efficiently building and managing AWS style infra. Or designing new ASICS for consumer products.

Helping with R&D? Strategic planning? Sure. But not doing stuff like that at scale.

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