DOD kicks off procurement for 5G prototypes

"I think if you do a truly objective, detailed, apples-to-apples comparison of the platforms, you don't end up in the spot where that decision is made," Andy Jassy said of JEDI's award to Microsoft.

The Air Force's Will Roper says that getting the U.S. military to multi-domain operations requires taking the best tech that already exists in the commercial world and cloning that for command and control.

The Department of Defense hasn't done a good enough job assessing such threats, the Government Accountability Office found.

Puckett is a civilian who joins the Army from cloud and software services company Pivotal.

The JAIC needs a system engineering and integration partner to help procure, implement and operate a hybrid, multi-cloud environment to serve as the backbone of its common development platform.

It appears potential political influence will be at the center of Amazon's argument.

As hoped the contracting arrangement is bringing DOD into contact with different companies, too.

"Cloud has to happen to maximize AI," Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said.

Tyndall Air Force Base, which suffered extreme structural damage from Hurricane Michael's Category 5 winds in October 2018, will get 5G service sometime in early 2020.

The Defense Innovation Unit it looking to the bright minds in Silicon Valley for an alternative cloud security gateway.