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Federal courts enter next phase of cloud transition

After completing use case testing with major cloud providers, the judiciary is moving to buy professional and managed services so it can expand adoption and enhance cybersecurity.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Navy awards Microsoft sole-source cloud contract, admits vendor lock-in risk

The Naval Sea Systems Command believes switching cloud providers would require a "re-engineering" of the solution from the ground up.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Microsoft hires SAP vet as corporate federal VP

Carmen Krueger joins Microsoft to help oversee its federal strategy focused on artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Microsoft offers major discounts to government customers in latest ‘OneGov’ deal

The discounts could be worth as much as $3.1 billion in year one, according to the General Services Administration.

  • By Frank Konkel
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‘High-severity’ Microsoft Exchange vulnerability disclosed on heels of Black Hat talk

Parts of the federal enterprise are likely susceptible to the flaw that allows hackers to hijack on-premises versions of Active Directory. CISA plans to release an emergency directive on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter.

  • By David DiMolfetta

Protester seeks second chance at $1.5B Microsoft support contract

CIYIS claims the Navy did not follow the solicitation when it evaluated and rejected its proposal to be part of the Microsoft Enterprise Services program.

  • By Nick Wakeman
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Microsoft's global public sector chief Angela Heise steps down

Phillippe Rogge, Vodafone Germany's former CEO and a Microsoft veteran, will take over leadership of the group Heise has led for the past three years.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Navy chooses 8 for $1.5B Microsoft product support pact

This second iteration of the Microsoft Enterprise Services contract was reserved for small businesses and covers work across the entire lifecycle of the brand name offerings.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Where GSA sees resellers fitting into its unified procurement strategy

One of the General Services Administration's senior IT officials is telling industry that the agency essentially wants OneGov to create a role reversal of who the prime contractor is.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI authorized for all defense operations

Microsoft’s artificial intelligence offerings are now available at the highest impact level classification for the Defense Department.

  • By Alexandra Kelley

With IVAS takeover, Anduril looks to build out human-machine ‘ecosystem’

Microsoft hands over its prime role on the $22 billion Army headset program to a defense tech company that is proclaiming a “new path in human augmentation.”

  • By Patrick Tucker

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
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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

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