Mujtaba Hamid, GM Product Management, Strategic Missions & Technologies, Microsoft Prashant Varshney, Head of Product, Azure MSWB, Strategic Missions & Technologies, Microsoft Designing a silicon chip, an aircraft engine, an autonomous system, running sub-surface simulation for oil drilling, and other complex engineering systems are processes that typically include thousands of functions to verify, complex system interactions to optimize and multiphysics simulations to validate manufacturability. The need for close collaboration of developers from different disciplines, software and IP ..read more

Background and Use Cases Many of our customers have a requirement to translate documents from a variety of languages into a common language to ensure their mission success. These documents can be in a variety of formats, with unique page layouts and styles, and they may contain images with embedded text essential for a complete understanding by the reader. In many scenarios, there are large numbers of documents that must be translated quickly and securely to ensure mission success. Below are some common use cases for government organizations requiring document translation: Intelligence and Se ..read more

In October, I shared Microsoft’s commitment to bring the latest advances in AI to support critical government needs and further drive innovation for mission critical workloads. I am thrilled to announce Azure OpenAI Service is now available in Azure Government joining a comprehensive set of existing AI Platform of services that include Azure AI Services (formerly Azure Cognitive Services), Azure Machine Learning and Azure AI Search to advance AI capabilities in government. Azure OpenAI Service in Azure Government enables agencies with stringent security and compliance requirements to utilize t ..read more

Space is increasingly becoming a contested environment as nation-states compete to control this latest frontier. The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) is taking significant steps to modernize systems and capabilities in order to ensure service members have the best tools to protect and defend our interests in space. SSC recently renewed its partnership with Microsoft to develop the Integrated, Immersive, Intelligent Environment (I3E), a production follow-on to the Immersive Digital Facility (IDF) prototype successfully developed in 2023. I3E establishes an immersive environment to ..read more

Welcome to Part 7 of our Decoding AI: A government perspective learning series! In our previous blog, we discussed how to create boundary conditions in generative AI, the topic on everybody’s mind, as we explore the boundaries (pardon the pun) of generative AI – the constraints or rules that guide the outputs of these technologies, and why they are essential for the US government. In this module, we re-introduce a technique that can help us achieve better boundary conditions and quality outputs: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with GAI. — Siddhartha Chaturvedi, Miri Rodriguez The topical ..read more

Welcome to Part 6 of our Decoding AI: A government perspective learning series! In our previous blog, we discussed the importance of trust in AI, especially for large language models and generative AI. In this module, we dive deeper into how to create boundary conditions in generative AI, the topic on everybody’s mind, as we explore the boundaries (pardon the pun) of Generative AI – the constraints or rules that guide the outputs of these technologies, and why they are essential for the US government. — Siddhartha Chaturvedi, Miri Rodriguez What are boundary conditions and why do they matter ..read more

Public – Private partnerships are successful. After years of talking about the need for public-private partnerships, the war in Ukraine has stress-tested the system. Since the war’s beginning in February 2022, Microsoft security teams, working closely with Ukrainian government officials, US government cybersecurity staff and US private enterprises have identified and remediated a variety of cyber threat activities against Ukrainian networks.1 The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Centre (MSTIC) discovered wiper malware2 in more than a dozen Ukrainian networks. Microsoft subsequently alerted the Uk ..read more

Greetings and welcome to Part 5 of our Decoding AI: A government perspective learning series! Previously, we went through the expansive capabilities of multimodal AI, spanning sectors from agriculture to urban living. In this module, we pivot to a matter of paramount importance: Trust in AI, with a focus on large language models and generative AI. — Keith Bauer, T’Neil Walea, Miri Rodriguez, Siddhartha Chaturvedi The central role of trust in AI Trust is not a single feeling, but a complex and dynamic phenomenon. It shapes how we perceive and interact with the world around us, including the art ..read more

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform nearly every sector of the economy and society. For U.S. government agencies, the latest advances in AI offer a unique opportunity to optimize their operations, deliver better user experiences and enhance national security. Microsoft is innovating in AI to deliver technology for the public sector. As we embark on this new way to work, we are committed to delivering transformational AI innovations responsibly to drive government missions, aligned to the goals of the White House’s recent executive order for safe, secure and trustworthy ..read more

Welcome to Part 4 of our Decoding AI: A government perspective learning series! In our previous dialogue, we unraveled the complexities of semantic search and generative AI and how they are transforming public governance. In this module, let’s shift gears and focus on the dawn of a new AI era: multimodal sensing. This compelling advancement merges multiple sensory data—think vision, sound, text—into an insightful, unified whole data set. — Siddhartha Chaturvedi, Miri Rodriguez Making sense of different senses In our day-to-day lives, we seldom rely on just one sense to make decisions or unders ..read more