Candice Ling, federal sector leader at Microsoft, was inducted into Executive Mosaic's 2024 roster of Wash100 awardees for driving innovation in artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. 2024 marks Ling’s debut on Executive Mosaic's annual selection of 100 government and government contracting industry leaders.

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Microsoft has added its Azure OpenAI service to its Azure Government cloud services platform, said Candice Ling, Microsoft Federal's vice president of strategic missions and technologies and winner of the Wash100 Award. In an article posted Tuesday, Ling said the company intends to apply for FedRAMP High certification as well as Department of Defense Impact Level 4 and 5 authorizations for Azure OpenAI.

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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

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

ServiceNow has received Impact Level 5 provisional authorization from the Department of Defense for its cloud offering hosted on Microsoft Azure Government. ServiceNow National Security Cloud is a software-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service offering that could enable federal agencies to process, manage and protect data using 430 security controls, the company said Wednesday. With the IL5 provisional […] More

Executive Mosaic has presented Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft’s U.S. federal subsidiary, his fifth consecutive Wash100 recognition for his mission cloud and security leadership. Wagner’s 2022 win builds on his previous inclusion in Executive Mosaic’s annual list of executives who have staying power in the government contracting industry. Visit GovCon Wire to read his full […] More

Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft Federal and a four-time recipient of the Wash100 Award, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz for his latest Executive Spotlight interview with the publication to discuss Microsoft’s investments into cybersecurity and the FastTrack program to improve our national security efforts and other areas of IT modernization for cloud infrastructures. In addition, Rick Wagner also […] 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

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

Cloud service providers are investing in the development of technology platforms that could help the Department of Defense meet the needs of warfighters operating in tactical, distributed environments. “We have to create devices that can operate in those austere environments,” said Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft Federal for government customers and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient.

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Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft’s federal arm, has received a Wash100 Award, the most celebrated award in all of government contracting (GovCon), for the fourth consecutive year. Wagner received his 2021 Wash100 Award for his leadership and efforts to drive digital transformation for federal agencies as they push adoption of the latest emerging technologies.

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