One year ago, some Microsoft employees were not happy with the company's decision to pursue the $10 billion JEDI contract. Now that the company's won the massive deal, CEO Satya Nadella appears unconcerned with employee pushback.
Some Microsoft employees a year earlier protest the bid for the contract due to ethical concerns.
President Donald Trump with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in the State Dining Room of the White House June 19, 2017 in Washington, DC.CEO Satya Nadella said in an interview published Monday that the company is pressing forward with its commitment to the massive Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, contract it won last month.
"As an American company, we're not going to withhold technology from the institutions that we have elected in our democracy to protect the freedoms we enjoy," he said in an interview withThat's something that is a principled stance we have taken, and we are very transparent about it."
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