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A National Security Agency cloud computing acquisition is in limbo after losing bidder Microsoft successfully challenged one of the source selection criteria. The case shows how carefully agencies need to tread.
December 22, 2021 -
DoD picks Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle for multibillion dollar project to replace JEDI CloudThe decision followed several months of market research, and represented a change from DoD’s initial plans for the contract.
November 19, 2021 -
The White House said Kurt DelBene will be the nominee to be the assistant secretary for information and technology and CIO at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
November 05, 2021 -
The National Institutes of Health recently added Microsoft Azure to their other two cloud providers: AWS and Google Cloud. Some call those providers, “the big three.” NIH calls it a “partnership.”
October 28, 2021 Executives from the Internal Revenue Service, Treasury Department, Securities Exchange Commission, Department of Defense, Microsoft and Saviynt will discuss how their agencies are modernizing identity management through an agile, data-focused approach.
October 25, 2021-
The program is a partnership between the Army and Microsoft.
October 15, 2021 -
The 18th Airborne is using an effort called Project Ridgway to train and educate soldiers on data and cloud platforms. The hope is that an AI-enabled workforce will be versed enough to use new technologies faster.
October 13, 2021 -
The Defense Department is still poised to select the participants forthcoming Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability contract by the end of this month. The multibillion dollar vehicle will replace the now-cancelled JEDI contract.
October 07, 2021 -
The creation of a Cyber Safety Review Board in President Joe Biden's executive order on improving cybersecurity is being compared to the establishment of the NTSB in 1967.
September 14, 2021 -
With the recent cybersecurity executive order and the critical infrastructure control systems memo, President Joe Biden’s administration is making cybersecurity a top priority. Federal News Network sat down with Jason Payne, chief technology officer for Microsoft Federal, and Steve Faehl, chief technology officer of security for Microsoft Federal, to dig deeper into these recent moves, what makes them important and how federal agencies can partner with industry to achieve their goals.
September 03, 2021 -
Section 4 in the cybersecurity executive order (EO) is, in many ways, the most prescriptive of the entire EO, tackling head-on how to get vendors to improve the security of their products.
September 01, 2021 -
When the National Security Agency recently awarded Amazon a multi-billion-dollar cloud computing contract, Microsoft protested. With how the award is likely to play out, we turned to attorney Hamish Hume.
August 27, 2021 -
The recent cybersecurity executive order looks to improve threat information sharing between the private and public sectors.
August 26, 2021 -
President Joe Biden’s recent cybersecurity executive order sets several rapid-paced deadlines for agencies to work toward adopting a zero trust posture in order to generally harden the security of the federal government. But that doesn’t mean agencies have to accomplish this on their own.
August 26, 2021 -
This content is sponsored by Microsoft Federal. President Joe Biden’s recent cybersecurity executive order jumpstarted agencies’ efforts to modernize the government’s IT infrastructure with a set of standards that will enable agencies to proactively address…
August 20, 2021