
The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has approved three prototype secure cloud management (SCM) solutions for use, with plans to select one provider for a long-term contract likely in September. Following a 14-month prototyping, DIU on June 30 approved each of the offerings developed by Google Cloud [GOOG] in partnership with Palo Alto Networks [PANW], Zscaler [ZS] and McAfee Public Sector [MCFE]. “We have seen widespread interest in our SCM effort from Services and DoD agencies that are looking for…