TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 25, 2020 — Serco Group's Americas division will continue to help the U.S. Army manage the branch's civilian workforce and increase their readiness under a potential five-year, $27.8M contract, GovCon Wire reported Aug. 12.

Bleu Hilburn, former vice president of business development at American Roll-on Roll-off Carrier Group, will return to Crowley Solutions in a similar position to oversee its government services. His appointment is effective Aug. 31 and he will be responsible for developing customer pipeline, opportunity qualification, marketing, bid and capture strategies for Crowley's government business, the company said Tuesday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 24, 2020 — Sumo Logic is in the process of securing Moderate certification for its cloud-based log analytics platform under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, GovCon Wire reported Aug. 10.

Ellen Lord, acquisition chief at the Department of Defense and four-time Wash100 awardee, said she is confident that DoD can hand down a decision in March on Lockheed Martin's readiness to begin full-rate production of the F-35 aircraft.

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has secured a potential six-year, $50M contract to develop air warfare technology platforms for the U.S. Air Force. APL will also support acquisition, test and evaluation of munition, cyber and electronic warfare components of aerospace systems under the sole-source, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 21, 2020 — ASRC Federal's NetCentric subsidiary joined a roster of small businesses that can provide professional, scientific, technical and engineering support services to federal customers under Pools 1 and 3 of the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services vehicle, GovCon Wire reported Aug. 6.

AeroVironment has unveiled two optional features for its portfolio of small tactical unmanned aircraft systems that are equipped with electro-optical/infrared imaging and plug-and-play components.

Viasat has presented a satellite communications networking technology during a recent virtual event that was hosted by the U.S. Air Force's AFWERX outfit and featured presentations from 30 industry teams.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 19, 2020 — Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) appointed acting health unit head Liz Porter to the post permanently, GovCon Wire reported Aug. 4.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 18, 2020 — Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) appointed 25-year intelligence community market veteran Damian DiPippa senior vice president and general manager of the company's intelligence group, GovCon Wire reported Aug. 3.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 10, 2020 — HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ), Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK), Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) and Dataiku became the newest members of Leidos' (NYSE: LDOS) alliance partner network to help drive innovation for government and commercial customers, ExecutiveGov reported July 27.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 7, 2020 — BAE Systems received its first order under a potential $823M U.S. Army indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to apply an analytics software framework into the branch's Distributed Common Ground System, GovCon Wire reported July 24.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 5, 2020 — The technical solutions division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) invested in autonomous technology developer Sea Machines Robotics as part of unmanned surface vessel market push, GovCon Wire reported July 23.

Anthony Tata, a retired U.S. Army brigadier general and former chief growth officer of Air Data Solutions, has been appointed to serve as deputy undersecretary for policy at the Department of Defense on an acting basis, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 4, 2020 — Antenna Research Associates will provide lightweight tactical antennas to the U.S. military under a potential five-year, $12M contract from the Defense Logistics Agency, GovCon Wire reported July 22.