The U.S. Army has decided to move to a later date in fiscal year 2022 the operational test and fielding phase of a HoloLens-based augmented reality headset from Microsoft. The decision will enable the service and the company to further improve the Integrated Visual Augmentation System to provide warfighters edge in multidomain operations, the Army […] More

An annual report from Microsoft has found that Russia accounted for 58 percent of all cyberattacks the company observed in the past year from nation states and that the percentage of agencies involved in defense, national security or foreign policy that are being targeted by Russian threat actors to gather intelligence rose from 3 percent […] More

Microsoft plans to invest $20 billion in cybersecurity in the next five years and Brad Smith, the technology company’s president, said a part of that investment will be used to help federal, local and state government agencies and other enterprise customers implement the security technologies they already purchased but have not started using, CNBC reported […] More

The Biden administration’s cybersecurity executive order calls on agencies to implement zero trust to mitigate cyberthreat risks and Steve Faehl, chief technology officer of security for Microsoft’s federal business, said the company could help agencies in their zero trust journey through a three-phase plan that starts with identification and monitoring, Federal News Network reported Thursday. […] More

Top technology executives from Microsoft‘s federal arm have outlined how the industry can help government agencies realize President Joe Biden’s executive order on cybersecurity, Federal News Network reported Friday. Steve Faehl, chief technology officer of security at Microsoft Federal, said the government has many areas of improvement essential to achieving modernized cybersecurity. These areas include […] More

Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise conducted an experiment involving genomics testing to demonstrate how an edge-to-cloud computational workflow could help overcome bandwidth and computing limitations between the International Space Station and Earth. The Azure Space team at Microsoft launched an experiment that involved monitoring astronauts’ health and sequencing their genomes aboard the ISS, Gabe Monroy, […] More

Tom Keane, corporate vice president for Azure global at Microsoft, said the company has secured authorization to operate for its Azure Government Top Secret cloud platform, enabling it to support national security agency clients with data workloads classified at the Top Secret level. Keane wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that Microsoft achieved the […] More

Microsoft and the National Institutes of Health have partnered to help researchers analyze and manage large amounts of biomedical data by giving them access to the company’s cloud computing applications and services. NIH has approved the Azure platform to support biomedical research workloads in the cloud as part of the agency’s Science and Technology Research […] More

Microsoft has partnered with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center to help the latter expand its climate modeling capacity through artificial intelligence services and cloud-based predictive analytics tools. The company and ERDC will use the Azure Government cloud computing service for a code scalability demonstration of an integrated modeling system designed to enable […] More

Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft Federal and four-time Wash100 Award recipient, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz for its latest Executive Spotlight interview to discuss his team driving new solutions for federal customers, the greatest challenges in digital transformation, Azure Government’s advanced capabilities, data processing for military service branches and the future for Microsoft heading into the […] More

Microsoft was named as founding member of the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center, an organization that fosters exchanges of intelligence on security threats faced by the space industry. The company will share its global threat insights to help the space community secure critical infrastructure and expand cybersecurity expertise, Tom Keane, corporate vice president for […] More

Microsoft was provided with access to the Department of Defense’s cybersecurity governance, risk and compliance platform intended to enhance cyber risk management by equipping users with a suite of authorization capabilities. According to a company blog posted Thursday, users of the DOD’s Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service will now be able to use Azure security authorization […] More