Google To Bid For Pentagon Cloud Computing Contract; Oracle, IBM May Join Too

Alphabet Inc GOOG GOOGL Google is pursuing a massive cloud-computing contract with the Department of Defense, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Google abandoned a similar bid process three years back in the face of employee protests.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian recently met Pentagon officials to discuss the bid process for a contract called the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability.
The three-year contract will be split across multiple bidders, replacing the 10-year, $10 billion JEDI cloud-computing contract terminated in July.
The project was a bone of contention between Microsoft Corp MSFT, which won the bidding, and Amazon.com Inc AMZN, which contended the process was politically motivated under the Trump administration.
The officials expect cloud-industry leaders Amazon and Microsoft to bid on the contract and other qualified bidders like Oracle Corp ORCL and International Business Machines Corp IBM.
Google's cloud marketing share of 6% lags considerably behind Amazon at 41% and Microsoft at 20%.
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