
The Pentagon has officially selected Google [GOOG], Oracle [ORCL], Amazon Web Services [AMZN] and Microsoft [MSFT] for its potential $9 billion multi-vendor Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC) enterprise cloud computing effort. Awards to the four vendors were announced on Tuesday evening, with each of the firms having previously received direct solicitation requests to submit proposals for the program. “The purpose of this contract is to provide the Department of Defense with enterprise-wide, globally available cloud services across all security domains…