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Curt Kolcun, a nearly 28-year veteran of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and two-time Wash100 Award recipient, has been appointed chairman at XappMedia’s artificial intelligence business, GovCon Wire has learned.

VariQ, a Rockville, Md.-based provider of cloud, cybersecurity and DevSecOps services to federal, local and state government agencies, has acquired Reston, Va.-based design and systems integration firm Rivet Logic for an undisclosed sum.

The Department of Defense said in a Court of Federal Claims status report that it may consider “another solicitation amendment” and “additional limited proposal revisions” from Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Amazon Web Services for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday.

Summit 7 Systems has partnered with AvePoint to address the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program. Following the launch of DFARS 7012 DoD released CMMC, which has expanded upon NIST 800-171 cybersecurity framework.

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.

Amazon Web Services has filed an agency-level protest contesting the Department of Defense’s process to reconsider some aspects of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract, Federal News Network reported Thursday.

Minburn Technology Group will help the Department of Justice obtain Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) software licenses through a potential five-year, $440M basic ordering agreement. according to contract data posted on the government's SAM website.

A federal judge decided to put on hold until Aug. 17 a lawsuit filed by Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) challenging the Department of Defense’s decision to award Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) the potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract, Reuters reported Saturday.

The Department of Defense’s office of inspector general concluded that the awarding of the potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) was consistent with federal acquisition laws and policies, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.