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b'One of the biggest unanswered questions about the Pentagon\\u2019s Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability contract has been this. Will vendors be able to compete for work on a project-by-project basis. And the answer is yes, but with a caveat. DoD does plan to conduct task order competitions for each new cloud requirement. But vendors won\\u2019t submit bids. Instead, the department will use a new technology tool called \\u201cAT-AT\\u201d to pick winners based on what it already knows about each company\\u2019s capabilities and prices. If it sounds unusual \\u2013 it is. In an exclusive interview with Federal News Network\\u2019s Jared Serbu, Danielle Metz, the deputy DoD CIO for information enterprise, explained how it will work.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'