CIA Gives Tech Rivals Chance to Take On Amazon in Cloud Services
- Spy agency plans awards to multiple companies, unlike Pentagon
- New cloud deal could help Microsoft, Oracle catch up to Amazon
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The CIA is preparing to significantly increase its reliance on cloud-computing services, with plans to solicit tens of billions of dollars of work divided among multiple tech companies.
The program would also dramatically expand the federal market for the technology -- and give a chance for other companies to compete with Amazon.com Inc.