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$58,533,329

Department of Agriculture·Office of the Chief Financial Officer

to MICROSOFT CORPORATION

ai-infrastructureactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2024 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2024-07-17·LATEST ACTION2026-03-10·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_12314424F0350_1205_12314424G0011_1205
Award description

MICROSOFT AZURE STRATUS HSTXXX0000002144 93A34F

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Microsoft Azure cloud services contract for USDA computational and data infrastructure needs.

Sub-sectors
cloud-computinggovernment-it-servicesazure-platform
Why this matters

USDA's adoption of commercial cloud platforms centralizes agricultural data and analytics critical to farm policy and food security operations.

Supply-chain signal

Signals continued federal reliance on Microsoft's cloud ecosystem; potential downstream demand for Azure-integrated enterprise software and data services.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. government cloud consolidation on domestic providers (Microsoft) reduces exposure to foreign cloud infrastructure and aligns with strategic technology sovereignty.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002141.

Period of performance
Start
2024-07-17
End
2029-07-16
Status
activein 1155 days
Sources

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