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.

Dana Deasy, chief information officer at the Department of Defense and a 2019 Wash100 winner, expects DoD and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to commence the initial deployment of a department-wide cloud computing infrastructure in February, Defense News reported Tuesday.

Kevin Scott, chief technology officer of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), will assume additional duties as executive vice president of artificial intelligence and research in early 2020, CNBC reported Wednesday.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has introduced two cloud-based cybersecurity service offerings for Office 365 GCC High customers in the government sector. Cloud App Security and Azure Advanced Threat Protection are designed to help public sector organizations protect mission-critical information, according to a blog post published Monday on Microsoft's website.

Microsoft (NYSE: MSFT) has developed a suite of quantum computing services based on the Azure cloud platform. The company said Monday it partnered with Honeywell (NYSE: HON), 1QBit, QCI and IonQ to assemble software, hardware and other pre-built tools into Azure Quantum.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has won the potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract from the Department of Defense.

Michael Montoya, a more than 12-year veteran of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has joined data center services provider Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) as chief information security officer.

Lily Kim, general manager of Azure government at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), higlighted some of the company's latest efforts to help agencies address cloud computing requirements in a blog entry posted Monday.

Patricia Obermaier, founder and former CEO of consulting firm Resigility, has joined Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) as vice president for U.S. health and life sciences, FedHealthIT reported Tuesday.