Is Amazon The Lone Frontrunner For A $10 Billion Pentagon Cloud Contract?

NextGov: Next month, the Defense Department is expected to bid out a cloud contract worth as much as $10 billion over the next decade, and industry groups are concerned that only one company – Amazon Web Services – might have a shot at winning it.

Earlier this month, the Pentagon released draft requirements for its upcoming Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement stipulating that competing companies must be certified to host data at secret and top-secret classification levels within nine months of the award.

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