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ManTech will help the U.S. Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Center build a diagnostic testing platform for aircraft weapons systems under a potential five-year, $85M task order.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Information Innovation Office has issued a broad agency announcement seeking information technology research topics that are not covered under current I2O projects.

The Air Force Research Laboratory has indicated its intent to award Raytheon Technologies a sole-source contract to demonstrate a weapon system for defending military facilities against drone threats. The company would demonstrate a prototype of the Counter Electronic Highpower Microwave Extended Air Base Air Defense system, AFRL said Thursday in a notice of contract action.

Fluor holds a five-year position to compete for task orders in multiple professional service areas under the General Services Administration's One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services contract vehicle.

Dovel Technologies has created an advisory board and appointed skilled leadership to provide guidance for the company’s strategic plan to drive innovation, customer success and employee growth. "I am thrilled these well-known leaders have chosen to join Dovel's Advisory Board," said Damon Griggs, Dovel CEO.

Lockheed Martin received a $25M contract to help the U.S. Air force assess the feasibility of deploying weapons through an airlifter under the fourth phase of USAF's Palletized Munitions Experimentation Campaign.

General Atomics will provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support to government customers through the company's position on Pools 1 and 3 of the General Services Administration's One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services contract.

Jerry Welsh, chief operating officer and chief financial officer at Iceye, has been promoted to CEO of the synthetic aperture radar satellite operator's U.S subsidiary. Eric Jensen, former vice president of global sales for satellite systems at Boeing, joined the Iceye US organization as president.

Melissa Rowland, former program director of technology at ICF, has joined  Steampunk as director of the technical services provider's federal civilian group.

Geospatial intelligence company Slingshot Aerospace has raised $8M during an ATX Venture Partners-led Series A funding round and plans to use the investment to support the development of situational awareness offerings.

Eric Trexler, vice president of global governments and critical infrastructure at Forcepoint, wrote in a Nextgov article published Thursday that federal agencies looking to achieve cyber agility should invest in their cybersecurity platforms to deal with rapidly evolving cyber threats.

The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps have downselected four startups to receive prizes worth $200K combined to pilot their 5G technologies as part of an industry competition launched through the National Security Innovation Network.

Perspecta will move several benefits and financial applications of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System to the cloud under a potential nine-year, $42.5M contract. The company said Wednesday it will deploy Agile teams to support the migration effort and help CalSTRS maintain the hosted platform as part of the contract.

Inmarsat has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with L3Harris Technologies aimed at delivering the former's Global Xpress and L-TAC satellite communications services to government customers worldwide.

Perspecta has been awarded multiple classified programs, with a collective value of more than $519 million, to provide mission support to U.S. government customers. "For more than four decades, we have been partnering with Intelligence Community customers to innovate highly technical solutions that solve some of the nation's most complex problems,” said Damian DiPippa, senior vice president and general manager of Perspecta's intelligence group.