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Either Amazon or Microsoft will win coveted JEDI contract

caption: Amazon employees and their parents are reflected leaving the Day 1 Building during Amazon's bring your parents to work day on Friday, September 15, 2017, in Seattle.
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Amazon employees and their parents are reflected leaving the Day 1 Building during Amazon's bring your parents to work day on Friday, September 15, 2017, in Seattle.
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Two contenders are fighting for the future of the JEDI — not Star Wars, but a multi-billion dollar defense contract.

Amazon and Microsoft are in the hunt.

KUOW's Carolyn Adolph has been looking into the implications for our region's tech giants. And she told Kim Malcolm what JEDI is all about.

Listen to the interview by clicking the play button above.

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