Tech Group Asks Lawmakers to Release Pentagon Cloud Award Report
- IT Alliance sends letter to Armed Services Committees
- Rivals fear Amazon.com Inc. is favored in winner-take-all bid
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A group representing some of the tech industry’s largest companies is urging Congress to increase transparency of the Pentagon’s winner-take all competition for a broad-based cloud services contract that may be valued at billions of dollars.
The IT Alliance for Public Sector, a division of the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), sent a letter on Monday to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees asking members to publicly release the Pentagon’s justification for choosing just one winner for its cloud services project known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud Program.