TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 27, 2018 — Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received a Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) gold competency certification to offer the latter’s cloud offerings in support of customers’ cloud migration and modernization efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 12. The Microsoft Gold Partner designation serves to validate Leidos’ technical capability to …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 11, 2018 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has entered into a partnership with Mastercard (NYSE: MA) to develop a joint service that will work to secure digital identities while enabling consumers to manage and share identity data using trusted devices, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 4. Mastercard said Dec. …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 5, 2018 — Delphix, a Carahsoft Technology partner, has expanded the capabilities of its data management offering with the goal to support the migration of government agencies to Microsoft‘s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Azure Government cloud, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 2. Carahsoft offers the Delphix Dynamic Data Platform to …

Six companies have won spots on a potential 10-year, $3.17B blanket purchase agreement from the U.S. Navy to provide worldwide perpertual licenses and annual subscriptions for Microsoft-made (Nasdaq: MSFT) software products to the Defense Department, intelligence community and U.S. Coast Guard. DoD said Thursday the products are intended to address …

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has won a potential $479.1M other transaction agreement from the U.S. Army to produce augmented reality technology prototypes for potential use in military training and battlefield missions. A contract award notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps says the company will provide hardware, software and associated interface control documentation as part of …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 30, 2018 — Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has said the company will continue to work with the government to help shape the use of artificial intelligence and other technologies and support efforts to protect the U.S. against threats, ExecutiveBiz …

The U.S. Air Force has awarded AT&T (NYSE: T) an $87.4M other transaction agreement and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) a $34.4M OTA to set up enterprise information technology networks for experimentation. Both companies will each test a commercial data and voice network service intended to help Defense Department users access applications and …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 12, 2018 — ECS has been named a direct partner in a Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) program that enables it to offer the latter’s cloud services to its public and private sector customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The science, technology and engineering company said Monday it will deliver Azure, Office …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 23, 2018 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) helped detect and counter hacking attempts against three congressional candidates earlier this year and worked with the U.S. government to shut down the domain used and block the phishing messages, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Politico reported Thursday that Tom Burt, vice president …

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 …