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Sep 9, 2026
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Advancing trusted AI innovation with Agents and new Azure OpenAI models in Azure Government
Today, we are announcing expanded AI capabilities available across the Microsoft Azure for US Government portfolio. The Microsoft Foundry Agent Service is now available in Azure Government, giving organizations managed infrastructure on which to build, deploy, and operate AI systems that can reason over authorized information, use approved tools, and help complete multi-step work. Additionally, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, and GPT-5.6 Luna are now available through Microsoft Foundry in Azure Government. Together, these capabilities give public-sector organizations more choice in how they build secure, scalable AI ...
Mar 11, 2026
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Announcing general availability of Azure Confidential Computing (ACC) virtual machines for U.S. government environments
Government agencies have an increased need for secure, verifiable, and compliant cloud environments that adhere to data sovereignty regulations, operate in a Zero Trust framework, and help reduce exposure to insider threats. Today, Microsoft marks a major milestone in secure cloud innovation with the general availability of Azure Confidential Computing (ACC) for Secure Encrypted Virtualization – Secure Nested Paging (AMD SEV-SNP) based virtual machines across all U.S. government data classification levels. ACC VMs help protect sensitive workloads by using hardware-backed Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) t...
Jan 15, 2026
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Announcing GPT-5.2 Availability in Azure for U.S. Government Secret and Top Secret Clouds
Today, we are excited to announce that GPT-5.2, Azure OpenAI’s newest frontier reasoning model, is available in Microsoft Azure for U.S. Government Secret and Top Secret cloud environments. This release marks another significant milestone in our mission to bring cutting edge AI capabilities to the nation’s most critical missions, securely, reliably, and at unprecedented speed. Frontier AI for the Nation’s Most Sensitive Workloads GPT-5.2 represents the next evolution of frontier level reasoning, planning, and problem solving. It brings improved contextual understanding, stronger multistep reasoning, and bet...
Dec 4, 2025
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Unlocking New Possibilities: Microsoft Azure Hyperscale AI Computing with H200 GPUs Accelerates Secure AI Innovation in Azure for U.S. Government Secret and Top Secret
As artificial intelligence continues to reshape industries and redefine the boundaries of innovation, Microsoft is proud to announce a leap forward in secure, high-performance computing in our Secret and Top Secret clouds: the integration of NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs into Azure’s AI infrastructure. This advancement helps unlock unprecedented generative AI capabilities, large language models (LLMs), and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, while meeting the stringent security and compliance demands of government and regulated industries. Built for the Future of AI The NVIDIA H200 GPU is engineered...
Oct 16, 2025
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NASA’s Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) Data Now Available on Microsoft’s Planetary Computer
NASA’s vast archive of Earth observation data has long been a cornerstone for scientific discovery, environmental monitoring, and global sustainability efforts. Now, Microsoft has made it even easier for researchers, developers, and decision-makers to access and utilize this critical resource. Through a collaboration with NASA, the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) dataset is now available on Microsoft Azure by using Microsoft’s Planetary Computer platform. Whether you’re a researcher looking to push the boundaries of climate science, an entrepreneur exploring new commercial applications, or a scientist ...
Apr 16, 2025
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Azure OpenAI Service now authorized for all U.S. Government data classification levels
In the coming years, artificial intelligence will continue to be foundational to technical innovations for national security missions. Already, U.S. defense and intelligence organizations are using AI to enhance productivity, support decision making, and improve mission outcomes. Microsoft Azure is a backbone for this type of AI-driven work, supporting U.S. government missions with high resiliency, sophisticated capabilities, flexibility, and advanced security, designed to meet the stringent compliance requirements of the nation’s most sensitive data. Today, we are excited to share that Azure OpenAI Service ha...
Mar 18, 2025
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Embracing Zero Trust: Never Trust, Always Verify
Microsoft's 2024 Digital Defense Report found that between July 2023 and July 2024, Microsoft customers faced an astounding 600 million attacks daily from both cybercriminals and nation-state actors. In this high-risk and rapidly evolving environment, individuals and organizations must not only strengthen digital defenses at every level but also foster a deep and enduring commitment to cybersecurity. Zero Trust offers a powerful and proactive architecture that redefines how organizations safeguard their data and systems. In 2021, the U.S. federal gov...
Feb 21, 2025
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Successfully leveraging stakeholder feedback with Comment Analytics
Agencies in the U.S. federal government publish an average of 3,700 proposed rules yearly, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. With each proposed rule, agencies generally provide an opportunity for stakeholders and members of the public to submit comments before the rules are finalized. In some instances, thousands of comments are submitted, with no consistent government-wide process for intaking, analyzing and reporting the findings. A similar dynamic exists in the private sector, where organizations regularly solicit and analyze feedback and comments from customers to improve products ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Unlocking new possibilities: Microsoft AI, database, and identity products receive authorization for Top Secret workloads
Microsoft’s leading AI capabilities are being used across industries to enhance data analysis, bolster security, and support key business priorities. Our U.S. Government customers and authorized partners consistently share that they are ready and eager to apply these same tools to serve their critical missions, and Microsoft is committed to delivering the breadth of our capabilities to them securely, responsibly and compliantly. These capabilities open new possibilities for government agencies to improve public services, streamline internal workflows, and support critical missions like disaster response and publi... |
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