BAE and Microsoft announce deal to link cloud software and unmanned military aircraft

BAE Systems and Microsoft have announced a “strategic agreement” they say aims “to support faster and easier development, deployment and management of digital defence capabilities”. “As well as helping partners collaborate on large multinational defence projects, such as the future combat air system, cloud technology could be used to more easily combine and analyse different sources of data during military operations,” the companies said in a statement, explaining that as part of this collaboration, they “have used the Azure Cloud approach to accelerate software design, development and testing of a system that can deploy new software on to an uncrewed