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Supporting Federal Agencies in Their Implementation of the Executive Order on AI – Part 1

April 23, 2024 Apr 23, 2024 04/23/24

Jason Payne, Kent Cunningham, Richard Brion

The Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Memorandum on Artificial Intelligence (M-24-10) (the “Memo”), part of the President’s comprehensive strategy on AI, outlines a structured approach for federal agencies to leverage artificial intelligence responsibly. The Memo provides direction that establishes a governance framework, fosters...

Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench now in public preview

March 18, 2024 Mar 18, 2024 03/18/24

Mujtaba Hamid, Prashant Varshney

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 ...

Comprehensive Document Translation Solution

February 21, 2024 Feb 21, 2024 02/21/24

Sreedhar Mallangi, Richard Posada, Ted Shelton

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 ...

Azure OpenAI service is now available in Azure Government

February 6, 2024 Feb 6, 2024 02/6/24

Candice Ling

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...

How Microsoft is helping the Space Force become a Digital Service

January 9, 2024 Jan 9, 2024 01/9/24

Steve Kitay

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 ...

Decoding AI: Part 8, Data governance and generative AI

December 19, 2023 Dec 19, 2023 12/19/23

Kent Cunningham, Siddhartha Chaturvedi

Welcome to Part 8 of our Decoding AI: A government perspective learning series! In our previous blog, we re-introduced a technique that can help us achieve better boundary conditions and quality outputs: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with GAI. In this module, we wrap up with a culmination of all our learnings till date, and how they can...

Decoding AI: Part 7, Retrieval Augmented Generation with GAI

December 5, 2023 Dec 5, 2023 12/5/23

Siddhartha Chaturvedi, Miri Rodriguez

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 ...

Decoding AI: Part 6, Creating boundary conditions in generative AI

November 21, 2023 Nov 21, 2023 11/21/23

Siddhartha Chaturvedi, Miri Rodriguez

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 ...

Accelerating AUKUS: Securing Multilateral and Multiagency Collaboration

November 20, 2023 Nov 20, 2023 11/20/23

Scott Gills

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 ...

Decoding AI: Part 5, Navigating trust in the age of large language models and generative AI

November 7, 2023 Nov 7, 2023 11/7/23

Miri Rodriguez, T'Neil Walea, Keith Bauer

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...