applications. This will tap various sources of data,’s supply-chain software. It will provide the computing power to crunch them. And it will offer software tools that let developers create, test and runAs many corporate bosses have learned the hard way, the best technology is not worth much without the right processes to use it. So Nand Mulchandani,’s technology chief and a noted Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur, wants the group to function a bit like a venture-capital fund.
The group is still a long way from “mission accomplished”. Some problems are specific to the Pentagon.still awaits its own processing power, which has been held up by a legal challenge from Amazon; the tech giant argues that its cloud service was unfairly passed over in favour of Microsoft’s rival offering.’s procurement bureaucracy: if it cannot sign its own contracts, it will not be able to move fast enough.
Other issues will sound familiar to chief executives. Recruiting data scientists is tough; most would rather work for big tech, not big government. The