
The Pentagon on Friday issued direct solicitation requests allowing Amazon Web Services [AMZN], Google [GOOG], Microsoft [MSFT] and Oracle [ORCL] to submit proposals for the department’s new multi-billion dollar, multi-vendor Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC) enterprise cloud computing effort. The solicitation invites followed a market research period with five eligible hyperscale cloud service providers, with IBM [IBM] as the sole firm on DoD’s consultation list not to receive a request to submit a proposal. JWCC is the Army’s replacement for…