The CVN-77 win is a key triumph for Microsoft in the defense industry, because it sets the stage for the company's participation in the Navy's long-term, three-phase future carrier design program.

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The work starts with discussions focused on client objectives -- making a visual statement, drawing a particular kind of traffic, solving a spatial problem -- and moves into the design phase, rendering two or three different ideas.

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