Microsoft Corp., Cisco and Oracle are among firms making the commitment, she said.

The first lady also said the private sector had far exceeded a challenge President Barack Obama issued in August 2011 to hire 100,000 veterans and military spouses by 2013.

Mrs. Obama said more than 850,000 veterans and military spouses had been hired by U.S. businesses in the four years since the president set the hiring goal.

The 850,000 is on top of the 30 percent of the federal workforce that is made up of veterans, she said.

“This is an amazing accomplishment, it really is, and I am so grateful to everyone across this country who made it possible,” Mrs. Obama said at Micron Technology, a Manassas, Virginia-based manufacturer of memory storage devices.

The company hires and trains veterans for its workforce. It also participates in a pilot program that matches student veterans who attend local universities and community college with high-tech companies throughout the area, she said.

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