Timothy Herrick, vice president of global product programs at General Motors, has been appointed to serve as president of GM Defense on an interim basis. He will lead the military vehicle manufacturing business until the company finds a permanent replacement for David Albritton, who exited GM Defense to join Amazon Web Services as VP of global communications for public sector and vertical industries.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is soliciting ideas for how interested vendors can update and maintain a data analytics technology in the intelligence community's Commercial Cloud Service and Unclassified C2S environments, according to a request for information notice posted Tuesday.

A Raytheon Technologies-led team will help the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency mature software for the second phase of a military planning technology being developed to support the agency's Mosaic Warfare strategy. Raytheon BBN Technologies aims to further develop a decision aid platform as part of DARPA's Adapting Cross-Domain Kill-Webs program to help commanders determine available resources or assets across air, space, land, maritime and cyber domains, the company said Tuesday.

Cambridge has received a two-year, $11.7M U.S. Navy task order to help Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic define technical requirements for military control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems.

Richard Zahner, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, has been named an advisory board member of the government business unit at Santa Clara, California-based processor developer Tachyum. “To ensure that we are properly addressing the demanding needs of defense and intelligence organizations, we need people who have served on the front lines, and who have senior command and policy experience to help us tailor our solutions to best serve these institutions," said Radoslav Danilak, founder and CEO of Tachyum.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 17, 2020 — Roy Azevedo, president of Raytheon Technologies' (NYSE: RTX) intelligence and space business, said the company is moving to acquire Blue Canyon Technologies as the demand for comprehensive space technology continues to grow, GovCon Wire reported Wednesday.

Tom Burt, corporate vice president for customer security and trust at Microsoft, said the company has found nation-state hacking operations that have targeted seven companies developing vaccines and other potential treatments for the novel coronavirus.

Charlie Zisette, executive director of the National Armaments Consortium, said the organization will change its timetable for announcing Department of Department prototyping solicitations regarding military weapons and support equipment requirements, National Defense Magazine reported Friday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 16, 2020 — Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) helps the U.S. Air Force and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration maintain systems for analyzing weather conditions to ensure the safety of satellite launch missions, GovCon Wire reported Nov. 9.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 13, 2020 — Prabu Natarajan, formerly a Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) executive, succeeded Charlie Mathis as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), GovCon Wire reported Nov. 6.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 13, 2020 — NuAxis Innovations appointed former G&B Solutions President Denise Manning as vice president for resource conservation and named Amanda Chavez, a former lead association at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), as director of customer experience, GovCon Wire reported Nov. 5.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 10, 2020 — Nuclear Waste Partnership, a joint venture of Amentum and BWX Technologies (BWXT), will continue to operate the Department of Energy's Waste Isolation Plant in New Mexico under a potential two-year, $296M contract option, GovCon Wire reported Oct. 21.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 9, 2020 — Jeff Bohling, senior vice president and general manager of Perspecta's (NYSE: PRSP) defense group, is among the 16 newly appointed members of the National Defense Industrial Association's board of directors, GovCon Wire reported Oct. 21.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 6, 2020 — ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) received the first task order under a single-award Food and Drug Administration blanket purchase agreement for information technology modernization support to the FDA's Digital Services Center, GovCon Wire reported Oct. 15.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 6, 2020 — Amentum, which leads the Savannah River Remediation joint venture, will continue to support liquid waste management efforts at the Department of Energy's nuclear reservation site in South Carolina, GovCon Wire reported Oct. 15.