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.

A Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) executive says Sue Gordon, former principal deputy director of national intelligence and two-time Wash100 Award recipient, will join the company in a consulting role.

The Department of Defense has awarded a task order worth $1M to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) under the potential 10-year Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract.

Amazon Web Services, Google (Nasdaq: GOOGL) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) have secured separate contacts to help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provide environmental data sets for public access through the use of cloud computing platforms.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has received provisional authorization from the Department of Defense to allow its Azure cloud infrastructure-as-a-service offering to host secret classified data for 90 days, Nextgov reported Thursday.