TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 23, 2020 — Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) federal arm and a three-time Wash100 awardee, said the company will provide its Azure Government cloud platform to function as the underlying technology for U.S. Air Force Advanced Battle Management System integration efforts, GovCon Wire reported Tuesday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 23, 2020 —LMI has transitioned Christen Smith from her role as the company's vice president of management advisory services to a new post as VP of federal health and civilian market, GovCon Wire reported Tuesday.

LexisNexis' risk solutions business has marked the anniversary of the Automated Delivery of Alerts on Missing Children Program launched in 2000 to support the efforts of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. For the last two decades, the ADAM program has assisted NCMEC in its child recovery efforts by sending out posters with photos of and details about missing children in a specific geographic search area within minutes, the company said Friday.

BlackBerry's unified endpoint management software has been certified under a National Security Agency program that seeks to guarantee the cybersecurity of a commercial product for U.S. government use. The BlackBerry UEM offering, designed to help organizations manage devices and applications, is now part of NSA's Commercial Solutions for Classified Program, the company said Wednesday.

The research business arm of General Electric has received a two-year, $14.3M contract to help Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency develop a fuel-powered device for potable water production.

Customer Value Partners will help the U.S. Coast Guard communicate intelligence to combatant commanders and other defense personnel under a contract from the Department of Homeland Security. CVP said Wednesday it will provide information technology services to support the USCG Intelligence Coordination Center in data collection and analysis efforts via website and multimedia platforms.

Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance and past Wash100 recipient, has welcomed the Federal Aviation Administration's updated rules for the commercial rocket launch industry to ensure public safety while promoting growth of the space launch sector.

The defense agencies of the U.S. and U.K. have named 10 start-ups from both countries and other allies who will work to deliver technologies in support of militaries' space domain missions. The U.K. government said Tuesday that innovators were selected through the International Space Pitch Day and were provided with up to $66K contracts to streamline the development of their proposals.

A variant of Raytheon Technologies' Standard Missile-3 system took down an intercontinental ballistic missile during a flight test demonstration led by the Missile Defense Agency, marking the first time such technology intercepted a target outside Earth's atmosphere.

Dave Dacquino, chairman and CEO of Serco Inc. and past Wash100 Award recipient, and three other heads of companies within the government contracting sector have called on other GovCon executives to join the Department of Labor's Apprenticeship Pilot Program that aims to help service members transition to careers in the private sector. Dacquino urged industry to support the initiative in a joint letter with Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions' government unit and 2020 Wash100 winner; Chris Brady, president of General Dynamics' mission systems business and 2020 Wash100 awardee; and Doug Wagoner, president and CEO of LMI and previous Wash100 recipient.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 12, 2020 — Jeffrey Harris, former president of Lockheed Martin's missiles and space division, has joined the board of directors of Concurrent Technologies Corp. as chairman, while Dale Mosier, who held senior leadership roles at manufacturing firms, was elected as CTC board vice chair, GovCon Wire reported Nov. 4.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 12, 2020 — Tony Frazier, executive vice president of global field operations at Maxar Technologies and four-time Wash100 awardee, recently announced the appointment of Jon Love, former head of public sector partner development at Microsoft, as the space technology company's VP of strategic growth, GovCon Wire reported Nov. 4.

David Egts, chief technologist of Red Hat's North American public sector business, has offered three recommendations for state and local government agencies to strengthen cybersecurity posture amid the increasing risk of ransomware attacks.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 10, 2020 — MetTel will provide the State Department with a fully managed layer 3 Multiprotocol Label Switching network, Internet Protocol Service and Ethernet Transport Service under a potential 13-year, $711M task order as part of the General Services Administration’s Enterprise Infrastructure Services contract, GovCon Wire reported Oct. 27.

More government agencies have increased their use of cloud access security brokers, which offer an added protection layer between end users and providers, in an effort to help federal employees protect data while working remotely, FedTech Magazine reported Thursday.