TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 13, 2018 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has unveiled a chat-based workspace designed to support government cloud users as they communicate, collaborate, manage tools and access files, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. US Government Cloud Community clients will be able to use the Microsoft Teams workspace beginning July 17 …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2018 —  Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Thales have established an alliance that aims to advance a new cloud platform intended to enable defense customers to store and secure classified and sensitive information within their information technology infrastructure while on the field, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 4, 2018 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has extended its partnership with Grant Thornton’s public sector business in efforts to help federal agencies derive insights from data to support compliance with the President’s Management Agenda and other regulations that target transparency and efficiency, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Grant Thornton …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 18, 2018 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and the U.S. intelligence community have entered into a six-year, transformative agreement that will work to expand the use of the Redmond, Wash.-based company’s technologies across 17 IC agencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Toni Townes-Whitley, Microsoft corporate vice president for industry, said …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 17, 2018 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and its partner Kymeta will hold demonstrations of land, maritime and first responder platforms that use the former’s cloud-based services and the latter’s KyWay satellite terminals as part of their presentation at two industry events this month, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Kymeta said Tuesday its …

Insight Public Sector has won a potential three-year, $653.2 million blanket purchase agreement to help the Department of the Navy obtain Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) software licenses, cloud products and software assurance services. The U.S. Navy issued the BPA in accordance with IPS’ Federal Supply Schedule contract and policy and guidelines under the Defense Department‘s Enterprise Software …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 19, 2018 — PwC and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) have expanded their alliance to advance a new suite of cybersecurity services and tools that are geared to safeguard customers’ IT networks and data, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The product portfolio will cover enterprise security architecture, identity and access management, …

Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Google are emerging as potential main contenders for the Defense Department‘s planned 10-year, $10 billion cloud procurement contract, Defense One reported Thursday. The report said DoD could issue a request for proposals its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud program as early as this week. Defense Secretary …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 4, 2018 — The Australian government’s signals directorate has added Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Azure and Office 365 offerings to the Certified Cloud Services List, allowing the technology provider to host data at the protected level, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Microsoft said Tuesday the Protected Level certification comes …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 29, 2018 —  L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) will implement Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Azure Government cloud platform to transform its global information technology operations, under a five-year strategic collaboration agreement with the technology provider, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. L3 said Tuesday the agreement is part of its broader effort to …