Microsoft

Microsoft is the world’s largest enterprise software company and a foundational contractor for US government computing. Snowden documents listed Microsoft as the first corporate participant in the NSA’s PRISM program, beginning in 2007, and reported that the company helped the agency circumvent its own encryption on Outlook.com and Skype. Documented government business includes multibillion-dollar Azure Government and JEDI/JWCC cloud contracts, the HoloLens-based IVAS combat headset program for the US Army, and the multibillion-dollar investment that gives it deep operational ties to OpenAI. Files tagged Microsoft document the company’s role as infrastructure for both mass surveillance programs and the military cloud, resting on leaked slides, procurement records, and court filings.