A cloud-based Microsoft service has received Department of Defense Impact Level 6 accreditation to move sensitive government information up to the secret level. The IL6 provisional authorization is for Azure Data Transfer and certifies the cross-domain service for migrating software artifacts and other materials with classified content, Amanda Foster, a principal program manager at Microsoft, […] More

BAE Systems and Raytheon Technologies have developed chip design capabilities on Microsoft‘s Azure cloud service as part of a Department of Defense program that aims to accelerate and secure the U.S. microelectronics industrial base. Three new chips were created using the secure design capabilities of the Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes using Advanced Commercial Capabilities project, […] More

Applied Information Sciences has earned an advanced specialization from Microsoft for its efforts to deliver tailored analytics tools in Azure to customers in support of their cloud migration and digital transformation initiatives. AIS said Friday the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization gives the company access to end-customer funding and resources from Microsoft and early insights […] More

Ball Aerospace will work with Microsoft and Loft Federal on a Space Development Agency program to build and launch into orbit a set of 10 satellites with experimental payloads. Ball Aerospace said Tuesday it will lead spacecraft and payload integration for SDA’s NExT experimental testbed program under a $176 million other transaction prototype agreement awarded […] More

A strategic partnership between Palantir Technologies and Microsoft is bound for expansion, following the completion of Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification of the Palantir Federal Cloud Service. The cloud platform also received accreditation for Department of Defense Impact Level 4 and 5 on Microsoft Azure’s government and commercial environments, Palantir said Wednesday. PFCS […] More

Brian LaMacchia, a Microsoft who previously led its security and cryptography team, has joined Quantum Computing Inc. as a technical advisory board member. He was the second appointee named to the panel, which was created in February to guide and advance QCI’s technology commercialization and product rollouts, the company said Tuesday. LaMacchia worked with Microsoft for over […] More

Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft’s federal arm and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said he sees as a primary challenge the emergence of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation and how the federal government can take advantage of such technologies, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. He told the publication in an […] More

Parsons has entered into a strategic partnership with Microsoft to use the latter’s cloud and artificial intelligence platforms to advance digital transformation and cybersecurity of critical infrastructure. Microsoft will provide its Azure cloud environment and AI tools to help Parsons provide data-informed insights to global public sector organizations on how to improve the accessibility and […] More

Microsoft’s federal business has completed a Defense Contract Management Agency test that examined the company’s cybersecurity capabilities. The company said Tuesday it received a perfect score of 110 from DCMA’s Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Assessment Center and certified third-party assessment organization Redspin for the Joint Surveillance Voluntary Assessment Program. Per federal rulemaking, the DIBCAC High Certificate […] More

A partnership between Mitre and Microsoft has integrated multiple open source tools to create a plug-in aimed at helping security professionals discover vulnerabilities in artificial intelligence and machine learning platforms. The team produced Arsenal using Microsoft’s Counterfit security test automation tool along with Mitre’s Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial-Intelligence Systems and Caldera cybersecurity framework, the […] More

Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft’s federal arm and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said the company’s top priority is safeguarding the country from rapidly changing cyberthreats and that there are three basic aspects to the security approach of the company. “One is secured-by-design foundations. The second is adopting a zero-trust architecture. And third, would be comprehensive […] More

In a new, exclusive video interview with Executive Mosaic, Microsoft Federal President Rick Wagner spoke about the significance of the Department of Defense’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract and what it means to Microsoft to win a spot on it.  This video is one of four in a series of interviews with executives from JWCC awardee companies. Subscribe […] More