Amazon Keeps Finding the Same Door

Hugh Jass has a simple rule: when the money, the cloud, and the government all keep showing up in the same hallway, somebody is not lost. Maybe it’s just business. Maybe it’s a very expensive version of business with better lighting and a firmer handshake.

But people do get funny about the old American question of who benefits when the deals stack neatly and the stock line smiles back. Nobody needs to prove a conspiracy to notice a pattern that has the manners of a lobbyist and the appetite of a freight train. At a certain point, “ordinary procurement” starts sounding like a slogan written by the contractor itself.