The FarmBeats platform can build machine-learning models across disparate datasets monitoring soil and weather, and the agency hopes to bring it to 200-plus research stations and farms nationwide.

The mobile version of Microsoft's personal information management software, Outlook, will now be available to all federal customers.

"Microsoft, don’t bid on JEDI," company employees wrote in a blog post on the site Medium.

The tech giant removed itself from competition for the DoD’s hotly contested cloud contract, citing ethical concerns about the use of artificial intelligence.

Microsoft’s cloud computing platform will expand its government services in early 2019, including providing Secret region capabilities for the DOD.

Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Federal