Transforming Sub-Surface Operations

As the future of military operations evolve the need to embrace emerging and innovative technologies is crucial. Subsurface operations are a vital component to maintaining national security. This paper shares insights on how cloud-based technologies can help optimize traditional and emerging naval operations and defense strategies.

Episode 61: Digital Transformation in Modern Military Operations: Insights from General Bob Brown

With an overwhelming amount of information available in the world today, General Bob Brown discusses the need for advanced technology to make quick, informed decisions, and the significance of collaboration with allies and partners.

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Navigating the Future of AI in Government

Microsoft partnered with Patricia Thaine, the Co-Founder and CEO of Private AI, to launch a three-part series on the implications of Artificial Intelligence in Government. Explore how Governments around the world are responding to, regulating, and incorporating AI in this insightful series.

Episode 58: Cybersecurity in an AI-Driven Landscape

Cybersecurity stands at the forefront of global concerns, and recent advancements in generative AI have opened new avenues for both progress and peril. Guest host Alvaro Vitta and Tom Burt, Corporate Vice President of Customer Security and Trust at Microsoft, delve into the insights from the 2023 Microsoft Digital Defense Report.

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How to Modernize Your Public Sector Security Operations Center

Take the training and learn about the importance of modernizing security operations centers (SOC) in public sector organizations and the steps involved in SOC modernization.

AI in the Public Sector

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the game for businesses and organizations of all types. Explore this collection and start imagining how AI can help your public sector organization.

Let’s Talk About Cloud: Part 1

In a series of short posts, Dave Sloan, Chief Technology Officer in Microsoft’s Worldwide Public Sector team, addresses key issues in understanding the cloud and shares his perspectives from discussions with governments around the world.

Introduction to Generative AI

Watch Kate Maxwell, CTO in Microsoft’s Worldwide Public Sector Team at Tech Live London as she presents on Generative AI: Demystifying the Hype, Busting the Myths, and Harnessing the AI Revolution.

Public Sector Tech Community

Your community for best practices, the latest news, and discussions surrounding the Public Sector, Local and State Governments.

Get Certified: Microsoft Certifications

Earn certifications that show you are keeping pace with today’s technical roles and requirements. Microsoft has certification paths for many technical job roles. Each of these certifications consists of passing a series of exams to earn certification.

Power Platform in a Day workshops

Register to attend a virtual one-day training workshop and learn how to use Microsoft’s Power Platform.

Microsoft Azure Connected Learning Experience (CLX)

Register for this training program that sets a trajectory for aspiring learners and working professionals to be Azure experts. The CLX program offers a personalized journey that aims to optimize learning experience while maximizing return on time invested. The 4 Step Program is purposely driven to deliver exam readiness with a perspective and personalized learning journey, curated to meet every learner’s need.

Microsoft Training & Special Events

Explore special events and learning opportunities created to help you expand your expertise, learn new skills, and build community.

Public Sector Procurement Fit for the Digital Age

Andrew Cooke, Global Policy Lead in Microsoft’s Worldwide Public Sector team, shares a new paper outlining how public sector organizations can address common issues preventing digital transformation progress and build flexible, collaborative, and outcomes-focused approaches to procurement.

Insights into Generative AI Technology

Continuing our series of insights into the use of generative AI in the Public Sector, Dave Sloan, Chief Technology Officer in Microsoft’s Worldwide Public Sector team shares more detail on the Azure Open AI Service.

Day in a life: Transforming the capability lifecycle

As the pace of global change accelerates, Defense organizations need to continually invest in enhancing capability. In this episode of the Day in a Life Series, current members of the Microsoft Worldwide Defense and Intelligence Team reflect on their days serving in the armed forces and discuss how digital transformation can help transform the capability lifecycle.

Day in a life: Optimizing decision advantage through digital transformation

Operating a military or defense command has become increasingly complex as the pace of global change accelerates. In this episode of the Day in a Life Series, current members of the Microsoft Worldwide Defense and Intelligence Team consider their days serving in the armed forces and discuss how digital transformation can optimize decision advantage.

Generative AI and the Public Sector

Artificial Intelligence is changing the game for organizations of all types. New advanced natural language processing capabilities have captured the world’s imagination. They have the potential to revolutionize both the way governments interact with citizens and how the sector addresses today’s challenges.

Day in a life: Empower personnel and modernize facilities

As they protect the nations they serve, military organizations must also support their personnel. Through digital transformation they can upgrade tools and facilities to meet the demands of a modern force. In this episode of the Day in a Life Series, current members of the Microsoft Worldwide Defense and Intelligence Team discuss how digital transformation can help empower personnel and modernize facilities.

Episode 48: Technology Trends and Decision Advantage in Defense

On this episode, guest host AT Ball speaks to Retired Vice Admiral Ann E. Rondeau, President of the Naval Postgraduate School. Rondeau offers an inside look into how defense organizations can adopt digital tools and adapt with emerging technology.

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Policy and Procurement: Building Blocks for a Successful Digital Transformation Strategy

Read our latest paper co-authored with global law firm Linklaters where we share perspectives on good public sector technology policy and procurement practices.

The Responsible Public Cloud

Read about Microsoft’s vision of the four fundamental building blocks of a responsible public cloud – inclusive economic opportunity, earning trust, protecting fundamental rights and building a sustainable future.

Episode 46: Becoming a Digital Government: Lessons from Ukraine

On this episode, host Olivia Neal speaks to Gulsanna Mamediieva, of the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine. She shares how the government has embraced digital transformation and digital identity, and how this has supported citizens during the war.

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Microsoft for Defense and Intelligence: Secure the digital defense ecosystem and improve interoperability

Learn more about how to achieve the necessary level of interoperability while ensuring that your data is secure.

Episode 45: Digital Collaboration in Defense: Using technology to enable secure cooperation

On the second episode of our Defense and Intelligence mini-series, guest host AT Ball talks to Perry Smith of Myriad Technologies. Perry shares an inside look into the technology that enables secure collaboration between defense organizations.

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Enabling Interoperability in the Future Operating Environment

Hear how organizations that are interoperable can respond with agility, leveraging technology to collect, analyze, and disseminate massive amounts of data.

Driving a cloud-enabled defense posture

Join this webinar to learn how cloud technology can help empower militaries to innovate at speed, improve operations, and enhance national security.

Modernizing the digital workplace for defense

Watch this webinar and explore how the future defense workplace can meet the needs and expectations of an evolving workforce, and how the hybrid model can improve collaboration, innovation, and well-being for defense workers around the world.

AI at the tactical edge for search & rescue operations

Learn how using artificial intelligence technology can help defense & intelligence leaders make near real-time decisions in critical situations.

Episode 44: Defense & Intelligence: Adopting digital engineering

On the first episode of our Defense and Intelligence mini-series, Microsoft’s AT Ball is joined by Rob Clifford, Chief Data Officer for BAE Systems, Maritime and Land Division. They discuss how digital engineering and cloud-enabled technologies support mission outcomes.

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Episode 43: Future of Infrastructure: Lessons Learned from 100 Years of City Planning

Tom Wright is the CEO of the Regional Plan Association. He joined the podcast for a discussion of what they’ve learned by taking the long view of city and regional planning.

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Episode 42: Future of Infrastructure: Building for Resilience

The Special Advisor for Climate & Sustainability at Columbia University talks about lessons learned from Hurricane Sandy and how a comprehensive infrastructure approach mitigates the impact of climate change.

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Episode 41: Building blocks for digital transformation

Ashleigh Sinclair, Managing Associate at Linklaters and Andrew Cooke, Global Policy Lead at Microsoft share insights from their paper on Building Blocks for a Successful Digital Transformation Strategy.

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Episode 39: The future of tax operations

Jeff Saviano is the Global Tax Innovation Leader for EY. In the first episode of our Public Finance mini-series, Jeff tells Olivia about the intersection of tax and innovation and shares what he sees in the future of public finance.

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Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2023

The 2023 Microsoft Digital Defense Report shares unique insights on how the digital threat landscape is evolving and what crucial actions can be taken now.

Cyber Resiliency in Government: Key Actionable Insights from the 2022 Microsoft Digital Defense Report

Worldwide Public Sector Security Lead Alvaro Vitta breaks down the 2022 Microsoft Digital Defense Report as it relates to cyber resiliency and outlines four core pillars and actions that governments must take action now on to protect their digital ecosystems.

Episode 38: Cybersecurity, Compliance and Cloud: Lessons from Singapore

Yeo Beng Huay leads the Governance Planning and Policy Division in GovTech, Singapore. Her team plans and formulates policies, standards, and guidance for government ICT and smart systems, and provides data driven management of compliance and risks.

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Episode 37: Military Lessons on Cyberdefense

Dr. Marcus Thompson is a retired Major General and former Head of Information Warfare for the Australian Defense Force. On the second episode of our cybersecurity mini-series, Dr. Thompson talks with Alvaro Vitta about best practices for protecting sensitive data and why making risk-based decisions is so important.

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Defending Your Data

Learn how Microsoft responds to data protection, privacy, and residency requirements. Through a collection of learning modules, webpages and articles you will learn about: data protection and privacy, data classification, data residency, data governance and compliance, how to optimize government operations with Azure, and how Microsoft secures our own datacenters.

Secure Identities and Access

Learn about the important role that digital identity plays within your digital transformation journey. Through a collection of learning modules, webpages, articles, videos, and blogs you will learn about: secure identities, identity and access management, permissions management and decentralized identity.

Learn How to Implement Zero Trust in Your Public Sector Organization

As public sector entities continue to embark on their digital transformation and cyber threats continue to increase, having a Zero Trust security strategy is now more essential than ever before. In this collection, learn more about the importance of a Zero Trust strategy and how to implement it.

Defending Ukraine: Early Lessons from the Cyber War

This Microsoft report outlines five early lessons we can learn from the war in Ukraine and steps we need to take to ensure protection of democracy’s future.

Episode 36: Cyber Resilience in Government

Tom Burt is the Corporate Vice President of Customer Security and Trust at Microsoft. On the first episode of our Cybersecurity mini-series, Tom tells Alvaro Vitta about the trends he’s seeing, working with the government in Ukraine on cyber defense, and how public sector organizations can be better prepared for future attacks.

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Episode 30: Restricted data in the cloud

Rear Admiral António Gameiro Marques is the Director General of the Portuguese National Security Authority, which includes the National Cybersecurity Center.

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IDC Whitepaper: Environmentally sustainable procurement in government

A new IDC White Paper investigates the expanding role of environmental sustainability in government procurement, with a focus on technology and emerging policies on indirect emissions

How LinkedIn Learning Can Help Futureproof Your Agency

As the focus on skills and learning continues to grow in importance, Governments are looking for innovative ways to engage employees and support development. Discover how LinkedIn Learning and its blend of unique insights, in-demand courses and an engaging platform can help your agency stay current in a rapidly changing world.

The Intersection of Agile Development and Culture

Learn from Aaron Bjork who leads the Azure IoT Central product team at Microsoft, as he describes the importance of organizational culture in scaled agile implementations. Get practical advice for how to intersect agile and culture in your organization and teams.

Report from Gartner®: Top Trends in Cyber Security, 2022

Around the world Microsoft experts are working constantly with governments and public sector organizations to tackle cyber security threats.

World Bank Report: Government migration to cloud ecosystems

The Microsoft Public Sector Center of Expertise is proud to have supported the development of World Bank’s new report, Government Migration to Cloud Ecosystems: Multiple Options, Significant Benefits, Manageable Risks.

Lessons from a year of ‘Public Sector Future’

Discover lessons learned from Olivia Neal, Director of Microsoft’s Public Sector Center of Expertise, as she reflects on one year of hosting the ‘Public Sector Future’ podcast.

Developing Public Sector markets together

Antonio de Palmas, Vice President of Global Market Development in Microsoft’s Worldwide Public Sector team shares how developing a market together is essential for growth and Microsoft’s Public Sector partnership approach pivot.

Lawyers supporting digital transformation in the Public Sector

Andrew Cooke, Microsoft’s Head of Policy for Worldwide Public Sector reflects on how lawyers can be agents of change in digital transformation.

Emissions Impact Dashboard

Track and reduce your organization’s carbon emissions related to Microsoft cloud services usage, with the Microsoft Emissions Impact Dashboard.

How the public sector can define the sustainability agenda for everyone

Learn about both the biggest challenge and opportunity for public sector organizations as they seek to engage citizens and create future-proofed, sustainably-minded societies.

Sustainability e-book

Get guidance and information about Microsoft sustainability solutions to help start your sustainability journey.

Building trust and security in government

Join this webinar to hear from government experts at Microsoft about practical use cases and steps you can take to protect your organization from unwanted threats.

The future of critical infrastructure is in the cloud

In this blog, Jeremy Goldberg discusses how trusted solutions can help public sector organizations secure, modernize, and manage critical infrastructure by providing the tools and services that enable digital transformation. Those who manage the critical infrastructure functions for their agency understand the potential to improve services, increase resilience, and cut costs.

Episode 15: Data Curation for Sharing and Crisis Response

Professor Dame Angela McLean is the Chief Scientific Adviser for the UK Ministry of Defence. She was appointed to the role in 2019. McLean is a Professor of Mathematical Biology in the Department of Zoology at Oxford University and Director of The Institute for Emerging Infections of Humans.

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Episode 12: Taking defense and intelligence to the cloud edge

Mike Schrock is the Vice President of Global Alliances at Thales, leading work on technology initiatives involving the intersection between cloud technology, data security, public trust, digital payments, and society.

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HAX: Human-AI eXperience Toolkit

Microsoft’s new Human-AI eXperience Toolkit offers best practices and end-to-end guidance for teams developing AI systems that interact with people.

Race and Technology: A Research Lecture Series

Microsoft is bringing together leading voices at the intersection of race and technology for discussions around data, the internet, justice, genomics and more in a virtual speaker series.

Research: Digital Approaches for Sustainability

New research from Microsoft and EY explores how digital approaches can support Public Sector organizations in achieving their sustainability goals.

Live panel recording: A greener public service through tech

Watch the launch of Microsoft’s Public Sector Center of Expertise, featuring a live panel of experts who will discuss how public servants around the world are leveraging technology to create greener governments & societies.

THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC SECTOR WORK

Discover how emerging technologies support public sectors and address their goals around efficiency, effectiveness, and equity to provide better services for the public. This report explores education, social services, & law enforcement.

Free online courses to help 25 million

Microsoft launched an initiative to help 25 million people get new digital skills for the COVID-19 economy. Leverage these free online courses, available to all, that allow governments to digitally upskill their employees.

Microsoft Learn for Government

Empower government transformation with access to learning paths and modules. Through interactive training, develop practical skills and master new concepts at your speed and on your schedule.

Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector

This report identifies leading practices involving the adoption and impact of Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector. Learn about the three elements that public organizations leading in Artificial Intelligence view as important.