The efforts of the Trump and Musk government to conclude USAID have jeopardized several large cloud and telecommunications contracts.
The agency, which distributes billions of dollars for help worldwide, was effectively put on hold with its future.
Elon Musk's unofficial cost reduction agency Dogge began to terminate aid programs and contracts, security officers were brought on vacation, the employees were excluded from emails and their website was provided offline.
The workers this week were instructed to stay at home, and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said he was now the acting head. Rubio said that the plan was to bring the agency together with the Foreign Ministry.
“We close [USAID] Below, “said Musk. Such a step would legally require the consent of the congress.
The abrupt and unclear changes mean the fate of a series of digital infrastructure contracts similar to in the air.
From 2023, Cloudshape received a USID contract for critical hybrid cloud services of 144 million US dollars for critical hybrid cloud services.
USAID consolidated its data center infrastructure in 2018 and shifted to a hybrid cloud model that Cloudshape currently manages.
In 2021, the agency signed a contract of $ 182 million at AT & T. for a decade of global network services. Telecommunications supports domestic and international wireless and wireless connectivity needs for the agency.
USAM has given AECOM as part of the G7 partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGI) initiative. With the contract on the late 2024, AECOM work on projects for rail, port, clean energy, digital technology and nutritional security.
In the past, the agency has issued millions for SpaceX Starlink terminals and contracts, also for Zimbabwe and South Africa. The largest business was to send thousands of Starlink terminals to Ukraine. At that time, Musk, CEO von SpaceX claimed that despite the contract of the USA and other agencies and nations, the company had not received government support for Starlink in Ukraine.
The status of the US International Development Finance Corporation is also unclear, part of USAID, which has given hundreds of billions of billions of loans with low interest to support developments in the data center in Africa. The DFC has given Africa calculates 300 million US dollars for Africa, 14 million US dollars of Aqaba Digital Hub and others.
In addition, Afrell has provided funding of $ 100 million to expand affordable mobile language and data services in Gambia, Sierra Leone, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as other Telco projects.
“We are an honor of supporting the important work of the almost 15,000 USAID employees who help the understream nations, AT&T Public Sector and First, said at the time.
AT&T and Cloudshape did not react immediately to inquiries about comments.