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Serco Inc. has appointed Gordon Foster as senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective Oct. 26. He will report to Dave Dacquino, chairman and CEO at Serco Inc. and a past Wash100 Award recipient. In his new role, Foster will lead the corporate financial and accounting operations.

Textron Systems has been selected to provide a reentry platform for the intercontinental ballistic missile system Northrop Grumman is developing as the prime contractor of the U.S. Air Force's Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program.

Microsoft has increased the number of its Azure Government cloud services that are authorized to handle Department of Defense workloads at the highest security baseline by 18. The company said Tuesday it now has 97 offerings on its platform for hosting impact level 5 controlled unclassified information.

The Defense Information Systems Agency has granted Smartsheet provisional authorization for the company's collaborative work management platform to support at impact level 4 data in a cloud computing environment.

Denver-based software company Palantir Technologies is scheduled to debut Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange through direct listing and NSYE said the company’s listing will have a reference price of $7.25 a share, CNBC reported Tuesday.

CACI International will continue to help the Department of Defense's comptroller office manage, secure and maintain financial systems under a potential $59M task order. “CACI looks forward to providing DoD budget expertise and technology to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense with comprehensive support in modernizing and maintaining our customer’s critical mission systems," said John Mengucci, president and CEO of CACI and a 2020 Wash 100 awardee.

Amazon Web Services has launched an initiative that will enable the company’s industry partners to offer their tools to support the emerging security needs of government customers.

SpaceX and NASA are conducting final reviews of modifications to the company’s Crew Dragon capsule ahead of its launch to the International Space Station scheduled for Oct. 31.

Andy Green, president of Huntington Ingalls Industries’ technical solutions segment and a 2020 Wash100 awardee, said a new center of excellence will help increase HII’s manufacturing capacity to handle future programs focused on unmanned underwater vehicles, Inside Defense reported Tuesday.

Drew Schnabel, vice president of federal at Zscaler, has said the Department of Defense must embrace a zero-trust infrastructure integrated with a framework based on secure edge-level access.

Carahsoft Technology has added a suite of Infoblox network management offerings to the former's contract with the cooperative purchasing arm of the National Association of State Procurement Officials.

General Atomics' aeronautical systems business has collaborated with Ultra Electronics and an Air National Guard test unit to conduct an initial operational assessment of an airborne communications payload that was installed on an MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 30, 2020 — Idemia named Andrew Boyd, formerly an executive at Science Applications International Corp. and Unisys Federal, took the helm of its national security solutions business as president and CEO, GovCon Wire reported Sept. 16.

Mike Corkery, president and CEO of Deltek as well as a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the company's recent Deltek Insight 2020 Virtual Event, the challenge of delivering content to the government contracting (GovCon) community and the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on Deltek’s customers in 2020.

Octo Consulting Group has rebranded as “Octo,” after the company completed the acquisition and integration of Connexta, an IT company based in Phoenix. Octo Consulting acquired Connexta in July 2019 to bolster its existing client base in the Intelligence Community (IC) and the Department of Defense (DoD).