What's Standing Between Amazon and Top U.S. Secrets: QuickTake

The U.S. Defense Department is running a winner-take-all competition to choose a cloud-computing company to host its trove of information, perhaps including top national-security secrets, so that warfighters and military leaders can make data-driven decisions at "mission-speed." Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. are among those vying for the multibillion-dollar contract. The massive scope of the project, and the Pentagon’s intention to choose just one winner, has caught the attention of the tech industry and U.S. lawmakers. Some technology companies think the Defense Department favors Amazon.