Accenture Federal Services has teamed with Microsoft to support federal agencies and other national security-focused organizations looking to optimize their cloud technologies. Through the new Cloud Modernization and Migration Factory hosted on Microsoft Azure Government, the partners will help public sector organizations and industry customers achieve the security standards necessary to operate in the national security realm, Accenture Federal Services announced from its Arlington, Virginia headquarters on Wednesday.

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Microsoft has worked with the Office of Management and Budget, Office of the National Cyber Director and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to provide federal agencies using Purview Audit access to expanded logging capabilities.

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Ball Aerospace will work with Microsoft and Loft Federal on a Space Development Agency program to build and launch into orbit a set of 10 satellites with experimental payloads. Ball Aerospace said Tuesday it will lead spacecraft and payload integration for SDA’s NExT experimental testbed program under a $176 million other transaction prototype agreement awarded […] More

Microsoft’s federal business has completed a Defense Contract Management Agency test that examined the company’s cybersecurity capabilities. The company said Tuesday it received a perfect score of 110 from DCMA’s Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Assessment Center and certified third-party assessment organization Redspin for the Joint Surveillance Voluntary Assessment Program. Per federal rulemaking, the DIBCAC High Certificate […] More

Kristen Summers, operating unit chief technology officer at Microsoft Federal, provided an overview of commercial tools the company has built to help federal customers integrate disparate data from multiple sources, collaborate in a classified environment and operationalize artificial intelligence models. “It’s really our goal to empower federal missions in innovative secure and compliant ways,” Summers […] More

Microsoft and Tenable have expanded their collaboration to help U.S. federal agencies accelerate the detection, investigation and remediation of cybersecurity threats in accordance with the cybersecurity executive order signed in May 2021. The extended partnership will facilitate the integration of Tenable.io with Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender Cloud platforms to “support vulnerability assessments for hybrid […] More

TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 9, 2020 — Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) hired Diane Nguyen, former vice president of finance at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), as chief financial officer of its federal business, GovCon Wire reported Sept. 24.

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ASRC Federal has achieved a Microsoft “Gold” competency status for the former’s data center services supporting Microsoft's cloud infrastructure.

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Microsoft has introduced a service meant to help national party committees and federal political campaigns secure online communications. The Microsoft 365 for Campaigns offering consists of multifactor authentication, advanced threat protection, data classification and security, mobile application protection and update prioritization features, the company said Wednesday.

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PCM-G, a government-focused subsidiary of PCM, has received rights to sell Microsoft products to the U.S. federal government as an authorized distributor. The company will distribute Microsoft-made licensing and cloud products and services across the federal information technology market, PCM said Tuesday.

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Microsoft has updated its Outlook mobile architecture to help meet the government security and compliance requirements of Department of Defense and Office 365 US Government Community Cloud customers. The Outlook mobile platform for iOS and Android phone users now uses a Microsoft sync technology to provide users access to S/MIME and other enterprise-grade functions and reduce latency, the company said in a blog post published Tuesday.

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Microsoft‘s plan to acquire software development platform GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock by the end of 2018 could position the former as a key provider of federal cloud computing services due to the latter’s deals with government agencies. Laura Criste, a federal market analyst with Bloomberg Government, wrote in an analysis published Friday that […] More