Companies
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.
Companies
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.
Companies
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.
Contracts
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.
Companies
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.
Companies
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.
Companies
Microsoft promotes new federal leader
The global tech giant also elevates a new leader for the business unit focused on civilian agencies.
Companies
Microsoft loses federal business leader
Rick Wagner joined Microsoft in 2020 after a five-year stint at ManTech.
Companies
Microsoft unveils OpenAI service for government customers
Microsoft is opening up its commercial generative AI technology to public sector customers and partners.
Contracts
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.
Companies
Microsoft, Lockheed form new cloud collaboration pact
The world's largest defense company has both internal initiatives and work with military customers in mind for this partnership.
Contracts
Pentagon on track to award $9 billion cloud contract in December
The Pentagon’s chief information officer said the multi-cloud, multi-vendor JWCC contract will be awarded “in about a month.”
Contracts
Amazon-Microsoft rivalry now turns to $1B NGA contract
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency went down the sole-source route, which of course led to a protest.
Companies
Teresa Carlson returns to Microsoft
She rejoins the company nearly 12 years on from her last stint there.
Contracts
Microsoft, DoD sign research and development pact
The company may have the chance to negotiate exclusive intellectual property rights—with an exception for the government—to innovations emerging from the collaboration.
Companies
Lockheed further grows its '5G.MIL' partnership tent
Partnerships with companies in the global commercial technology arena are a key aspect of Lockheed Martin's strategy for creating what it calls "5G.MIL" and the latest example is seen in this collaboration with one of the largest cloud computing providers.
Contracts
Insight scores early victory in $2.5B fight versus Dell
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has sided with Insight Public Sector and has given the Navy 45 days to investigate claims that Dell used inside information to undermine the former's bid for a $2.5 billion Microsoft product license contract.
Microsoft readying Azure cloud service for government
Microsoft is planning on offering its Azure cloud service to the U.S. Government through a new offering called Windows Azure U.S. Government Cloud.
Microsoft wins $66M Navy contract for consulting support services
Microsoft has won a $66.4 million contract to provide the Navy with consulting support services.
Who won June's biggest contracts?
June brought another increase in the number of contract awards that we've covered during the month, marking the continuation of a trend we've followed since January. So who are June's big winners?
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