Google pursues Pentagon cloud contract in spite of past employee concerns

Three years after its involvement with the military's controversial Project Maven program led to employee strife within its walls, Google reportedly hopes to once again work with the Pentagon. According to The New York Times, the company is "aggressively" pursuing the Defense Department's Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability cloud contract. A Google spokesperson confirmed to Engadget it was pursuing a bid. Announced at the start of July, the program is a replacement for the military's cancelled $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure initiative. With JEDI, the Pentagon had planned to modernize its IT infrastructure with help from Microsoft.