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Leidos has been awarded an approximate  five-year, $89 million Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) task order by the U.S. Air Force's Installation Contracting Agency (AFICA/KD) to support energetics research and development for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OUSD) and the Combat Capability Development Command, Armament Center (CCDC-AC).

Guidehouse has been recognized as a “Military Friendly Employer” by veteran-owned recruitment marketing company Viqtory for the second consecutive year.

Leidos and Rush University System for Health have entered into a two-year, partnership agreement to develop and implement an information technology application that would help medical personnel monitor an emergency department's patient flow in real-time.

Michael Dallara, a 25-year GovCon and technology services industry veteran, has joined Evoke Consulting as chief operating officer. He will oversee business operations and service delivery activities under his new role.

Carahsoft Technology and Wasabi have partnered to offer the latter's cloud storage service to agencies via the former's government contracts and reseller partners.

Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, has been named executive vice president of government affairs and public policy at Voyager Space Holdings. He will oversee Voyager’s government relations and help establish public-private partnerships to grow commercial space capabilities through the company’s Washington D.C. office.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has ordered two more Sierra Nevada Corp. multimission planes that are based on the Beechcraft King Air 350 twin-turboprop aircraft and equipped with passive and active sensors.

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions now offers advisory services to help companies achieve compliance with the Department of Defense's new cybersecurity standard. The company said Wednesday it will assess gaps, remediate assets, provide documentation and deliver consulting services to help defense contractors meet DoD's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements.

Xage Security has received a contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to provide a blockchain-based security platform to the U.S. Space Force to help the service enforce access control and protect data from cyber threats across military and civilian assets. 

Aerospace Corp. has named veteran defense leaders Cecil Haney, Michael McCord and Vincent Stewart to the board of trustees.

Trustwave has started to offer its technology platform on Amazon Web Services' GovCloud region to help customer agencies detect and respond to cybersecurity threats. The Trustwave Fusion offering uses automation, machine learning, analytics tools to support incident response, the company said Wednesday.

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has unveiled a set of data service offerings to help public and private sector customers identify satellites in geosynchronous orbit and increase their awareness of the space domain.

Accenture has formed Accenture Cloud First under a three-year, $3 billion investment. The division will help clients accelerate digital transformation to increase speed and scale. Accenture has appointed Karthik Narain to lead Accenture Cloud First and join the Global Management Committee, effective October 1. Accenture Cloud First is a multi-service group of 70,000 cloud professionals that will leverage Accenture’s industry and technology capabilities and ecosystem partnerships.

The U.S. Army has awarded Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) a potential two-year, $185 million single-award, cost-plus fixed-fee task order to support the Decision Support Division for the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) throughout space, space control, high altitude, air and missile defense and cyberspace operations.

Jacobs has elected Manny Fernandez, managing partner at KPMG, to the company’s Board of Directors, Jacobs reported on Thursday. Fernandez will retire from KPMG on Sept. 30th and join the Jacobs’ Board of Directors on Oct. 5th. Fernandez will bring nearly four decades of experience, advising both public and private companies.