Lockheed Martin has partnered with Microsoft to use the latter’s mixed-reality collaboration tool to help engineers visualize procedures while assembling the Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis II crewed mission to lunar orbit.

Toni Townes-Whitley, president of U.S. regulated industries at Microsoft, said the coronavirus pandemic has prompted regulated-industry companies and governments to accelerate the migration to the cloud as they advance the adoption of collaboration tools and field virtual desktops, Business Insider reported Monday.

Microsoft has found that three threat groups – Strontium, Zirconium and Phosphorus - are conducting cyber attacks against individuals and organizations involved in the upcoming U.S. presidential elections in November.

Microsoft has authorized Carahsoft Technology to distribute Azure services and business applications powered by cloud technology to public sector clients via the latter's position on multiple contracting vehicles.

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, said he believes low-latency edge computing platforms will have a “revolutionary" impact on warfighting operations within austere and rugged environments, FedScoop reported Wednesday.

NetApp has begun to offer a cloud-based file storage service through Microsoft Azure's government region data centers.

The Association of Public Health Laboratories has formed a partnership with Microsoft, Apple and Google to launch a mobile notification system and cloud-based server to support health agencies’ COVID-19 contact tracing efforts.

Summit 7 Systems has been selected for the Microsoft 2020 MSUS Partner Award in the modern workplace category for providing customers with end-to-end security solutions based on Microsoft security and compliance capabilities in 365 and Azure.

Microsoft has teamed up with the nonprofit organization Center for Internet Security to help improve election security and enable election officials to leverage cloud capabilities. 

Steve Faehl, U.S. security chief technology officer at Microsoft, has said that organizations must meet criteria under six fundamental elements when implementing a zero-trust approach to network security.

Technomile has been granted a Microsoft gold partner designation to help customers incorporate the latter's technology platforms into business strategies.

Microsoft has publicly released its COVID-19 threat intelligence data in efforts to inform customers of new approaches in cyberattacks.

Telos has incorporated a cyber risk management and cloud compliance suite into Microsoft’s Azure Government and Azure Government Secret services.

Microsoft has launched an end-to-end program designed to help clients and partners serving as defense suppliers prepare for and facilitate their compliance with the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. The Microsoft CMMC acceleration program seeks to help DoD suppliers “improve their cybersecurity maturity, develop the cyber critical thinking skills essential to CMMC, and benefit from the compliance capabilities native to Azure and Azure Government,” Lily Kim, general manager of Azure Global at Microsoft, wrote in a blog entry posted Tuesday.

Microsoft has released a new version of its Azure Migrate service that works to help customer agencies  determine appropriate tools for moving data centers to cloud infrastructure.