U.S. DOD speeding up deployment of Microsoft Teams during COVID-19
(Windows Phone Central)

The U.S. government is racing to implement social distancing by deploying Microsoft Teams as quickly as possible. Update: Article updated to reflect information about Defense Enterprise Office Solutions, or DEOS, which is what Microsoft Teams falls under, and not JEDI. It is no secret that Microsoft won a rather large contract with the Pentagon to overhaul its internal communications and cloud services. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) is a $10 billion contract to Microsoft that beat out Amazon back in October 2019. Amazon is contesting the legality of the decision in the courts with a temporary restraining order. However, another contract named Defense Enterprise Office Solutions, or DEOS, which is worth $7.6 billion was also awarded to General Dynamics Corp to deploy Microsoft Teams to the DOD. Now, it appears that, due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. government is accelerating its efforts to deploy Microsoft Teams - Microsoft`s collaboration ...