Microsoft has won a $927-million contract to provide technical support to the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Reuters is reporting.
The company earlier this year won a huge contract with the Defense Department, which said it would move all 4 million of its employees to Windows 10 within a year and would buy large quantities of laptops and other hardware. Microsoft signed a similar deal in 2013 to bring Windows 8 to 75 percent of all Defense Department employees.
Neither DISA nor Microsoft responded immediately to a request for comment on the support contract.
There was no indication whether the support is to be provided for Windows or for Azure, Microsoft’s public-cloud offering. Microsoft offers data centers dedicated specifically to the Defense Department. They were opened in preview mode in October.
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Microsoft has an entire web page devoted to DISA, which is a combat-support agency of the Defense Department that provides a secure cloud environment for that department, the White House and other organizations that help defend the U.S. DISA has approved Microsoft’s Azure Government, a specialized public-cloud service, for everything up through controlled, unclassified information.
Date: December 20, 2016