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Constellis has won several contracts since its restructuring in late March. Key contract wins include a $198M task order to provide security operations support for the Department of Defense at Camp Buehring and Camp Arifjan in Kuwait; $75M contract for security, counterterrorism, fire protection and mail room services at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Missouri; and a $33M contract with the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service for work at the St. Elizabeths campus in Washington, D.C.

A helmet display system developed by an Elbit Systems of America-Collins Aerospace joint venture has started to undergo  flight tests as part of a U.S. Air Force flight release process for the Lockheed Martin F-16V aircraft.

Josh Schoeller, former senior vice president and general manager of LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ health care business, has been promoted to CEO of the same unit after serving on the company's executive team for over seven years.

ABL Space Systems has secured over $90M during a Venrock-led funding round and plans to use the investment to support testing of the company’s RS1 launch vehicle for small satellites.

Jim Brinker, president and general manager of Intel’s federal arm and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, wrote in a Nextgov article published Monday how 5G network technology could help the government better respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and other public health emergencies.

A radio terminal being developed by Raytheon Technologies' Collins Aerospace subsidiary for the U.S. Air Force has completed preliminary and critical design assessments.

Rafael Borras, a veteran federal government and industry leader, has been appointed president and CEO of the Homeland Security and Defense Business Council.

Magellan Federal has appointed Aaron Betz as senior director of the company’s Department of Veterans Affairs programs.

Accenture Federal Services (AFS) has been awarded a position on a potential 10-year, $950 million contract vehicle to help the U.S Air Force build and operate the Advanced Battle Management System, the company announced Monday.

Cubic's mission solutions unit has been awarded a $38 million contract to provide a high-capacity backbone prototype for the U.S. Air Force's Joint Aerial Layer Network, the company announced Monday.

L3Harris Technologies will move to build a satellite for position, navigation and timing system demonstrations after the company passed a critical design review with the U.S. Air Force. The Melbourne, Fla.-based defense firm can now begin the production of Navigation Technology Satellite-3 the service branch intends to launch into geostationary orbit sometime in 2022.

Boeing has converted a retired F-16A/C aircraft into an unmanned configuration for weapons training use as part of a public-private partnership agreement with the U.S. Air Force's 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group.

AppTek has introduced 16 languages for automatic speech recognition and 25 for neural machine translation via Booz Allen Hamilton's enterprise artificial intelligence platform and marketplace. Booz Allen introduced the Modzy software offering in late 2019 for government and enterprise customers to access, deploy and manage AI models, AppTek said Thursday.

North American Forgemasters has secured a potential $31M Department of Defense investment to sustain production of metal forging products for the U.S. Navy and its Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program.

FSCX has won a potential six-year, $82M contract to help the U.S. Air Force teach military personnel the skills of survival, evasion, resistance and escape in combat missions.