Google, Amazon Work to Dethrone Microsoft on Federal Contracts

Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Amazon.com Inc. have found an avenue to profit from Elon Musk’s chaotic Department of Government Efficiency.

The companies’ lobbyists in Washington see their best opportunity yet to achieve one of their most elusive goals: prying loose Microsoft Corp.’s decades-long grip on the multi-billion-dollar government software business.

DOGE has identified that software business as a potential source of waste and overspending in the federal government. Amazon and Google, working largely through technology trade groups like NetChoice, are doing everything they can to highlight that message in an expanding lobbying campaign, and place the ...