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.
Potential contenders for the new work include Microsoft Corp., International Business Machines Corp. and Oracle Corp., which are all seeking to catch up to market leader Amazon Web Services in selling cloud services to the intelligence community.
Amazon already has a $600 million contract from the CIA, ...
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