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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.

Unsealed court documents claim that the White House influenced the Department of Defense's selection of Microsoft over Amazon Web Services for the $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract.

Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said the company is committed to supporting the Department of Defense’s efforts to strengthen national security, Reuters reported Sunday.

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy is on a mission to ensure a strong market presence for the cloud computing company through expansion of its technology service offerings and partner ecosystem, CRN reported Tuesday.

Amazon Web Services has unveiled a new service, center and a program in an effort to further push the development of quantum computing technologies.

Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO, has said he believes the company's partnerships with multiple cloud providers could support its pursuit of additional contracts in the government market, Fierce Telecom reported Wednesday. "We do expect that through those partnerships that we'll have a thriving government business, both on-premise as we have had as well as in hybrid and cloud offerings," Gelsinger told analysts during a recent earnings call.

Unisys (NYSE: UIS) booked a potential five-year, $144M contract during the third quarter to help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration migrate agency operations to a cloud computing environment. "We look forward to assisting NOAA as it moves forward to modernize its IT operations in support of its crucial mission in support of climate science, the environment and the overall U.S. economy," said Gary Wang, vice president of cloud, infrastructure and security services at Unisys' federal business.

Twenty-seven companies have landed spots on a blanket purchase agreement from the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center to provide cloud services to the militay branch's LevelUP cyber factory.

Anish Joseph, a federal market veteran with more than two decades of information technology consulting experience, has returned to CGI as vice president of the firm's U.S. state government solutions business,  G2XChange ETC reported Wednesday.

Patrick Sullivan, formerly vice president of emerging technologies at SES, has joined consulting services provider Aptive Resources as VP of digital services, FedHealthIT reported Thursday.