After announcing four vendors will participate in a competitive task order process for an up-to-$9-billion multicloud environment, multiple hurdles could lie ahead for the Pentagon, including potential delays and the possibility of contractor protests. At the beginning of December, the Defense Department selected four companies -- Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle -- for its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program, set to replace the single-vendor Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract. Comprised of competitively awarded task orders, officials have...