Can a chatbot help Pentagon planners find the satellite data they need to understand what’s happening in a global hotspot? Microsoft Azure Space recently showed the U.S. military how an… Read More
The protracted saga over a $10 billion Defense Department contract that pits Microsoft and Amazon against each other will be delayed even further. A federal judge on Friday gave the… Read More
Microsoft took aim at Amazon in a blog post Wednesday, accusing its rival of seeking an unfair advantage as the two companies lock horns over the Pentagon’s JEDI contract. The… Read More
A new report by the Defense Department’s inspector general found no evidence that President Donald Trump improperly influenced the award of a coveted military cloud contract to Microsoft over rival… Read More
Microsoft’s surprise victory last week in a protracted competition to build the Pentagon’s war cloud has some critics asking whether politics played any role in the outcome. Amazon was long… Read More
The Department of Defense’s Office of Inspector General says acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan is in full compliance with his ethics agreements and official obligations — turning back allegations that… Read More
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, who was a veteran Boeing executive before going to the Pentagon, is facing an ethics investigation amid complaints that he has been talking up his… Read More
President Donald Trump says Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, a former Boeing executive, will take charge of the Pentagon on Jan. 1 in the wake of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’… Read More
President Donald Trump today announced his intent to nominate longtime Boeing executive Patrick Shanahan as deputy secretary of defense, the Pentagon’s No. 2 civilian spot. Shanahan, 54, currently oversees Boeing’s manufacturing… Read More
Boeing has won a $2.1 billion contract to build more tanker planes for the U.S. Air Force, the manufacturer and the Pentagon announced today. Under the deal, Boeing will build 15 KC-46A… Read More
The U.S. Defense Department will not get direct access to Microsoft source code under a $927-million support contract signed earlier this week, those organizations said in an email Thursday. Stories in GeekWire and several… Read More
Microsoft has won a $927-million, five-year contract to provide technical support to the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). The company earlier this year won a huge contract with the Defense Department,… Read More