The Federal Government Pays Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Palantir Billions to Run Its Most Sensitive Operations. JJ Johnson Says That Ends on Day One.

NewsOnScale Staff

September 26, 2026

The United States federal government has quietly handed some of its most sensitive operations — military intelligence, nuclear weapons data management, NSA cloud infrastructure, Pentagon AI systems — to a small group of Silicon Valley technology companies whose executives sat at the head table with the President and the Chinese Communist Party leader last week.

JJ Johnson, a declared candidate for President of the United States in the 2028 election cycle, has a simple position on those contracts: they are gone on day one. Full audit. Competitive rebidding. Performance determines who gets the work. Relationships do not.

What the Contracts Actually Are

Microsoft — NSA and Pentagon: Microsoft holds the NSA's primary cloud computing contract — a successor to the JEDI contract — worth tens of billions of dollars. Microsoft Azure hosts some of the most classified data in the United States government. Microsoft also owns LinkedIn, which flagged a presidential candidate's campaign content as harassment within 24 hours of account creation. Microsoft's president Brad Smith sat at the Xi state dinner last week.

Google — Military AI: Google's Maven Smart System — developed in partnership with Palantir and hosted on Amazon Web Services — is one of the primary AI tools used by the US military for intelligence analysis. The broader military AI ecosystem these companies power came under scrutiny this spring when a US military analyst used an AI chatbot to generate an intelligence report claiming a Chinese ship was carrying nuclear weapons components — sending US military planes into the air before someone checked the source and discovered the report was entirely false. Google CEO Sundar Pichai sat at the Xi state dinner last week.

Amazon — Intelligence Community: Amazon Web Services holds the CIA's primary cloud contract and hosts significant portions of the intelligence community's data infrastructure. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos sat at the Xi state dinner last week.

Palantir — Data Analysis: Palantir holds contracts across the Pentagon, the NSA, the CIA, and multiple federal agencies for data analysis and intelligence software. Palantir's technology underlies the same military AI systems that have come under scrutiny for accuracy and accountability failures.

The Conflict of Interest Problem

The executives who run these companies — who hold billions in federal contracts and whose companies' fortunes depend in part on continued government relationships — sat at dinner last week with the leader of the country those government contracts are partly designed to counter.

Mark Zuckerberg sat at that dinner. Meta is a named defendant in an active federal civil complaint alleging election interference against a presidential candidate.

Elon Musk sat at that dinner. SpaceX holds billions in NASA and Pentagon launch contracts. SpaceX is a named defendant in an active federal civil complaint. Musk was previously a senior White House adviser. He dined with Xi while holding federal contracts that depend on the administration's goodwill.

What Accountability Would Look Like

JJ Johnson's position is straightforward: no incumbent contract protection. No relationship-based renewals. Every federal technology contract — including the NSA cloud contract, the CIA cloud contract, the Pentagon AI contracts, and every other technology contract currently held by Silicon Valley companies — gets audited and rebid on merit.

The audit would answer questions that have not been publicly answered: Did the companies that hold these contracts perform as contracted? What did the government actually receive for the billions it paid? Were there conflicts of interest in the original contract awards? Did the executives who hold these contracts make decisions that served their contract relationships rather than the public interest?

The Technology Alternative

The federal government's argument for concentrating its technology infrastructure in a small number of Silicon Valley companies has always been that those companies have the best technology.

That argument is increasingly difficult to sustain.

JJ Johnson has already built three independent government transparency tools with no federal contract, no Pentagon relationship, and no billions in government money:

FedPurse.com — a federal government financial intelligence platform making federal spending, legislation, judicial decisions, and executive actions accessible to ordinary Americans in plain English.

CountyPurse.com — a county government financial intelligence platform covering all 3,143 US counties, making local government budget data understandable to the residents who fund it.

ParseTicker.com — a financial markets intelligence platform providing AI-powered analysis of market data and SEC filings.

Johnson also built AMilliPay — the world's first quantum-safe AI agent payment platform, deployed July 2026 ahead of Visa's stated 2028 quantum-safe target — and has developed a quantum-safe election software prototype.

These tools were built by one person on a farm in Florida. No federal contract. No billions in government money. No relationship with the Pentagon or the NSA.

The technology to build better, more accountable federal infrastructure exists outside the incumbent contractor ecosystem. A president who audits the current contracts and rebids them on merit — rather than on relationship — would find out.

DISCLOSURE: NewsOnScale is an independent media publication owned and operated by AMILLI AI CORP. JJ Johnson is the founder of AMILLI AI CORP and a declared candidate for President of the United States in 2028 and the plaintiff in Case No. 1:26-cv-00197-RH-HTC, in which SpaceX and Elon Musk are named defendants. All facts about federal technology contracts are drawn from publicly available government contract databases, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Defense One reporting.