Candice Ling, senior vice president of federal at Microsoft, has accepted her 2025 Wash100 Award. The technology leader received her trophy for her second Wash100 win during Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson’s recent visit to the Microsoft office.  Commenting on Ling’s win, Garrettson, who founded the Wash100 Award, said, “Candice has secured her second consecutive […] More

Microsoft has developed a new quantum processing unit, or QPU, to advance its efforts to prototype utility-scale quantum computers. Called Majorana 1, the QPU brings a fault-tolerant quantum computing prototype much closer, Chetan Nayak, technical fellow and corporate vice president of quantum hardware at Microsoft, said in a blog Wednesday. Harnessing New Materials  According to […] More

Microsoft has released a white paper meant to support the government as it seeks greater efficiencies and better outcomes, which can be achieved through the application of technology modernization onto mission delivery, according to Candice Ling, the leader of the company’s federal organization. Insights and Recommendations on Achieving Efficiency Ling, senior vice president of federal […] More

Mattermost will create an artificial intelligence-ready workflow platform for Microsoft’s Azure Secret and Top Secret cloud environments, an initiative that Corey Hulen, Mattermost Federal CEO, described as advancing the company’s goal of providing new tools to address rising data security challenges. “The material rise in geopolitical instability and the dramatic increase in global cyber threats, […] More

Azure OpenAI and Azure Machine Learning, plus 24 other Microsoft products, have been cleared for use under the Intelligence Community Directive, or ICD, 503. Issued by the director of national intelligence in 2008, the directive serves as the Intelligence Community’s guidance for risk management and certification of information systems. The products’ generative artificial intelligence shortens […] More

The General Services Administration’s IT Vendor Management Office, or ITVMO, and Microsoft have finalized an agreement to streamline IT acquisition processes and improve cybersecurity standards across federal agencies. “Microsoft is proud to partner with GSA to identify key areas of efficiency in contracting and technology procurement to ensure federal agencies and taxpayers alike are getting […] More

Microsoft has pledged investments of approximately $80 billion to build data centers that would support training and deployment of artificial intelligence. Brad Smith, vice chair and president of Microsoft, shared on a blog post Friday the company’s plan to spend $80 billion on data centers in fiscal 2025 as part of its three-part AI vision […] More

Microsoft has secured a firm-fixed-price contract valued at $69.5 million from the U.S. Army for the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability, or JWCC. Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability Contract The Department of Defense said the project will run through Oct. 19, 2028, while work sites and fund allocations will be determined once the orders are placed. The Army […] More

Atom Computing and Microsoft have set a world record by creating and entangling 24 logical qubits made from neutral atoms. The two companies also demonstrated the capability to detect and correct errors and perform computations on 28 logical qubits, Atom Computing said Tuesday. According to Microsoft, they created the world’s largest entangled logical qubit state […] More

Anduril Industries has integrated its Lattice platform into the U.S. Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System headsets. The company said Thursday that it collaborated with Microsoft, which developed the IVAS, to provide soldiers with the capability to detect threats in the battlespace in real time. Lattice is an open software platform used in various industries and […] More

Mattermost has integrated its self-hosted collaboration platform for critical infrastructure into Microsoft Teams and the entire Microsoft 365 software suite. The San Francisco, California-headquartered technology company said Tuesday that Mattermost for Microsoft Teams is available to users via an update. The new offering is Mattermost’s attempt to remove communication silos within critical infrastructure, national security […] More

Microsoft is integrating Atom Computing’s neutral-atom hardware into the Azure Quantum compute platform to offer a reliable quantum machine for commercial use. Atom Computing is developing second-generation systems with over 1,200 physical qubits and plans to build new hardware generations with increased physical qubit count, Microsoft said Tuesday. Atom Computing’s hardware features quantum error correction […] More