Microsoft announced Tuesday that it is on track to land a series of key certifications in its continuing effort to provide cloud services to the U.S. government.

Matt Rathbun, a cloud security director at Microsoft, said in a blog post that the company was part of a pilot creating the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High Impact Baseline — a set of requirements from the federal government that will set out what companies need to do in order to handle the government’s high security data and workloads in the cloud. Microsoft has requested a Provisional Authority to Operate certification for FedRAMP High, which the company expects to receive within the next month. 

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