The Defense Department has awarded a contract worth up to $950 million for cloud services to an Amazon Web Services partner, but says the award is unrelated to a high-level steering group's plans for accelerating cloud adoption across the department. DOD issued the production award this month to Herndon, VA-based REAN Cloud as a follow-on to a successful prototype project initiated in May by the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental and U.S. Transportation Command, according to Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. Michelle...
