Steve Walters, former general manager of the federal civilian business at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has joined ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) as vice president of the cloud software provider's federal group.

Jason Zander, an executive vice president at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), recently discussed the growth of the company’s partnerships, including the energy industry, cloud technologies and energy transition, to remove Microsoft’s carbon emissions by 2050, IHS Markit reported Thursday.

Rick Wagner, a GovCon industry veteran and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, has joined Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) as corporate vice president of the company’s federal business, GovCon Wire has learned.

Curt Kolcun, a nearly 28-year veteran of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and two-time Wash100 Award recipient, has been appointed chairman at XappMedia’s artificial intelligence business, GovCon Wire has learned.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) plans to spend $64M on a research and development hub in Reston, Va., as part of the company's software development and business expansion efforts.

Susie Adams, chief technology officer at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), said cloud helps advance artificial intelligence by enabling data analysis and sharing to improve mission outcomes. "Cloud technology has given us vast capacity for data storage and nearly unlimited compute capacity to take advantage of AI, which is democratizing the ability for end users, not just data scientists, to build and run machine learning algorithms," Adams wrote.

The Small Business Administration has partnered with Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to help SBA distribute approximately $350B worth of loans to small companies as part of the Paycheck Protection Program, CNN reported Tuesday.

C3.ai, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and multiple universities have partnered to release two major initiatives: C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute and C3.ai DTI First Call for Research Proposals, C3.ai announced on Thursday. 

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Catherine Kuenzel, vice president of services at Microsoft’s public sector business, as an inductee into the 2020 Wash100 Award for her efforts to secure major contracts with top industry leaders, which grew the company’s revenue and influence in the sector.

Gabrielle Mellon, former global project management officer for recruiting operations at Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), has joined Axon (Nasdaq: AAXN) as director of talent acquisition, GeekWire reported Thursday.