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Microsoft and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory bring AI to quantum chemistry research

An updated version of Microsoft’s Azure Quantum Elements that combines artificial intelligence and chemistry-specific software tools will be available on Github.

  • By Alexandra Kelley

Microsoft unveils new quantum computing hybrid solution in Azure

Azure Quantum combines cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and logical qubits to bring quantum computing strength to scientific challenges.

  • By Alexandra Kelley

Microsoft, Palantir partner to expand AI offerings to defense and intelligence agencies

The new suite of offerings will be available on Microsoft’s Azure Government and Azure Government Secret and Top Secret clouds.

  • By Alexandra Kelley

Navy adds 49 more to $982M unmanned surface vehicle program

This on-ramp round of awards focuses on the vehicles' underlying technologies such as payloads, mission support systems and the needed autonomy to control them.

  • By Ross Wilkers

HiddenLayer closes $50M Series A capital raise

Booz Allen Hamilton's venture capital fund is among the investors in this one-year-old startup that focuses on defending artificial intelligence systems.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Microsoft enters partnership to build AI for large datasets

The global software giant is offering Synthetiac up to 1 million hours of cloud computing resources to accelerate the development of new tools for searching massive amounts of unstructured data.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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Microsoft promotes new federal leader

The global tech giant also elevates a new leader for the business unit focused on civilian agencies.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Microsoft loses federal business leader

Rick Wagner joined Microsoft in 2020 after a five-year stint at ManTech.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Microsoft unveils OpenAI service for government customers

Microsoft is opening up its commercial generative AI technology to public sector customers and partners.

  • By Frank Konkel

NOAA, Microsoft will advance national climate efforts through advanced tech partnership

Microsoft’s cloud computing and artificial intelligence tools will help NOAA further its climate and weather predictions and forecast modeling through research and development efforts.

  • By Kirsten Errick

Microsoft, Lockheed form new cloud collaboration pact

The world's largest defense company has both internal initiatives and work with military customers in mind for this partnership.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Pentagon on track to award $9 billion cloud contract in December

The Pentagon’s chief information officer said the multi-cloud, multi-vendor JWCC contract will be awarded “in about a month.”

  • By Edward Graham

Amazon-Microsoft rivalry now turns to $1B NGA contract

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency went down the sole-source route, which of course led to a protest.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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Teresa Carlson returns to Microsoft

She rejoins the company nearly 12 years on from her last stint there.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Microsoft, DoD sign research and development pact

The company may have the chance to negotiate exclusive intellectual property rights—with an exception for the government—to innovations emerging from the collaboration.

  • By Mariam Baksh

Lockheed further grows its '5G.MIL' partnership tent

Partnerships with companies in the global commercial technology arena are a key aspect of Lockheed Martin's strategy for creating what it calls "5G.MIL" and the latest example is seen in this collaboration with one of the largest cloud computing providers.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Insight scores early victory in $2.5B fight versus Dell

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has sided with Insight Public Sector and has given the Navy 45 days to investigate claims that Dell used inside information to undermine the former's bid for a $2.5 billion Microsoft product license contract.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Microsoft readying Azure cloud service for government

Microsoft is planning on offering its Azure cloud service to the U.S. Government through a new offering called Windows Azure U.S. Government Cloud.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Microsoft wins $66M Navy contract for consulting support services

Microsoft has won a $66.4 million contract to provide the Navy with consulting support services.

  • By Mark Hoover

Who won June's biggest contracts?

June brought another increase in the number of contract awards that we've covered during the month, marking the continuation of a trend we've followed since January. So who are June's big winners?

  • By Mark Hoover

Microsoft's $412.2M DISA contract includes access to source code

Microsoft has won a $412.2 million contract for Microsoft Enterprise Technical Support Services for DISA, which includes revealing its source code and other proprietary resources.

  • By Mark Hoover