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Columbia, Maryland-based endpoint cybersecurity provider Attila Security and Ashburn, Virginia-based communication device company Cis Secure will market a telework cybersecurity kit to federal government customers as part of a new partnership.

Raytheon Technologies has secured a $10.4M contract to carry out work in support of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-led software development project. 

Kevin Humphreys, former senior manager of financial planning and analysis at information technology services provider Dovel Technologies, has joined GRSi to serve as the professional and technical services company's director of finance. GRSi said Friday Humphreys will be responsible for team supervision on tasks related to financial reporting and analysis, pricing and customer invoicing.

Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket deployed 10 small satellites into the target orbit for NASA’s Launch Services Program as part of its second launch demonstration. The company’s carrier aircraft Cosmic Girl with the two-stage rocket lifted off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California on Sunday.

OneWeb has now raised $1.4B in total funding after it received additional investments from Hughes Network Systems and SoftBank Group. The additional funding provides OneWeb with needed capital to come up with a constellation of 648 satellites in low-Earth orbit by the end of 2022 to deliver broadband connectivity and low-latency communication services to customers worldwide.

John Bozarth, senior vice president of Mission Readiness at Amentum, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the company’s efforts to drive growth, solve customers’ most critical needs, as well as expand solutions and technologies, through valuable partnerships. He also discussed how Amentum will continue to grow in new markets moving into 2021. 

Cypress International has appointed Guy Beougher as vice president for Department of Defense (DOD)/federal logistics, supply chain and energy. Beougher currently serves as the deputy director of the Defense Logistics Agency's Logistics Operations and will begin his new position at Cypress on Feb. 15, the company said Friday.

The Department of Defense has given Northrop Grumman the green light to produce a software-defined anti-air and missile threat system following a Milestone C decision that required amounts of development and testing work between the company and the U.S. Army.

Blue Origin, a space company owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, used a capsule with updated crew systems during the company's 14th mission with the New Shepard rocket. The updated capsule featured new push-to-talk communications systems, noise reduction tools, cushioned wall linings, environmental systems and a crew alert system, Blue Origin said Thursday.

A Teledyne Technologies subsidiary has secured an $18M contract from Northrop Grumman to manufacture four more missile defense systems for the U.S. Navy's littoral combat ship mission package.

Lockheed Martin has sent the Orion capsule to NASA’s exploration ground systems team for final preparations ahead of the unmanned Artemis I mission to lunar orbit that will launch later this year. The spacecraft concluded assembly operations and testing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

LMI will continue to help Air Force Materiel Command manage logistics operations using readiness-based sparing tools under a potential five-year, $18M contract. The nonprofit company said Wednesday it will provide administrative, technical, and professional support to the Air Force Sustainment Center's supply chain processes.

The MIL Corp. has secured an $80.9M contract from the U.S. Navy to perform system engineering work for technologies and systems associated with Global Radio Frequency Intelligence Networks. 

Microsoft has modified the requirements needed by members of the defense industrial base applying for access to the company's U.S. government cloud offerings to help them adapt to the Department of Defense's new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification standards.

Microsoft and the Healthcare Information Trust Alliance have launched a matrix intended to assist customers of the company’s Azure cloud offering in efforts to implement HITRUST controls and comply with global cybersecurity standards.