WASHINGTON: Giants Tech made billions through contracts with the US military and other government institutions during what was called “war against terror”, according to a report released ahead of the 20th anniversary of 20 years.
Report “Big Tech Sels War”, which was published Thursday by three US campaign groups, documented the explosion of government contracts with Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter since 2004.
Corporate technology contracts “especially with the agency of the war center on terror,” said report that.
“From 2004 to the present, large technology companies have seen big climbing in federal demand for their services, especially from the Pentagon and the Homeland security department,” he said.
Demand from US military and intelligence agencies for cloud computing and GPS software has surged since 2001 because the defense industry has grown increasingly digitized.
The Ministry of Defense alone has spent $ 43.8 billion on large technology contracts since 2004, the report said, collaboration between the center of action on races and economic groups and social justice changes Littlesis and Mpower.
Four of the five upper expenditure agencies on large technology contracts are “foreign policy centers or set as direct consequences of global war against terror”, he said.
“Amazon and Microsoft are specifically interesting in the past few years, with Amazon signing almost five times and Microsoft signed eight more federal contracts and subcontracts in 2019 compared to 2015,” the report said.
The report said Microsoft had benefited from the leap in defense contracts during the Trump administration, with a six-fold increase in the amount of agreement signed between 2016 and 2018.
Contracts with “traditional” military and defense contractors, such as Raytheon’s aerospace companies and 2018 Northrop Grumman, While it decreased in recent years.
AFP has reached five large technology companies for comments, but has not received a response.
The report pulled the data from Tech’s request, an online tool that allows users to explore US government contracts.
This tool only includes contracts for information available to the public, so that the numbers given in the report are “very likely the less representation”, the report said.
Meanwhile the author criticized the phenomenon of “Revolving Doors” between Big Tech and US Security Agents, with former senior government officials ongoing to take a big role in technology companies.
The report quoted the former Official Department of the Jared Cohen Department, now on Google, as an example, and Amazon’s Steve Pandeelides – earlier from the FBI – and Microsoft Joseph D.
Rozek, which helped find the Homeland security department, for example.
Large tech made billions during the ‘terror war’: report
