Tech companies need to work with the US military, Jeff Bezos has said, as he defended deals made by Amazon and his aerospace firm Blue Origin. The space company announced last week that it would provide rockets to the US air force to reduce its reliance on Russian technology. Amazon, Mr Bezos’ more famous company, has previously caused controversy with an agreement to provide facial recognition software to the US government, and it is also considered the favourite candidate for a contract to provide cloud computing services to the Pentagon.
Speaking at the Wired25 conference in San Francisco, Mr Bezos said he would continue to work with defence agencies even if it was unpopular among his own staff, because the US “needs to be defended”.
— source telegraph.co.uk | 15 Oct 2018