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Cincinnati, Ohio-based company Government Acquisitions Inc. has been accredited by the Small Business Administration under a program that seeks to provide economic benefits to government contractors from historically underutilized business zones.

SpaceX has sent to space a satellite designed to monitor sea levels across the globe under a U.S.-U.K. partnership. The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base on a mission to collect sea level data, support ship navigation and inform weather forecasts, NASA said Sunday.

KBR has received a one-year, $64.8M contract modification to carry out base operating support services at various U.S. Navy installations in Djibouti and Kenya.

A team comprised of Cambridge and TSS Solutions will update technology subassemblies of the Air Combat Command's AN/TPS-70 radar system under a service life extension task order.

Daniel Brunk, a 30-year U.S. Navy veteran, has succeeded Martin Kao as CEO of Martin Defense Group. Brunk has also taken the role of manager at the Honolulu, Hawaii-based government contractor as part of his promotion, the company said Friday.

Steve Orrin, chief technology officer at Intel’s federal arm, and Cameron Chehreh, CTO of Dell Technologies’ federal business, wrote in a joint article published Friday on Nextgov that federal agencies should look at hybrid cloud not as a destination but as an operating model to realize the benefits of artificial intelligence and 5G. 

Raytheon Technologies' intelligence and space unit has embarked on a project to develop a threat detection approach for military aircraft operators that will fuse electronic warfare, cyber and signals intelligence tools into a single open-architecture system, dubbed Converged EW.

ViaSat has secured a potential $50.8M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help the Air Force Research Laboratory build and demonstrate prototype space systems.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 23, 2020 — Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) federal arm and a three-time Wash100 awardee, said the company will provide its Azure Government cloud platform to function as the underlying technology for U.S. Air Force Advanced Battle Management System integration efforts, GovCon Wire reported Tuesday.

Mark Testoni, CEO of SAP National Security Services and a five-time Wash100 Award recipient, said the heightened awareness about election security fueled collaborative efforts between federal and state agencies to protect voting systems, SearchSecurity reported Thursday.

DLT Solutions, a Tech Data subsidiary, will distribute IBM-made cloud and software technologies across the U.S. public sector under a new partnership. DLT said Thursday it will offer IBM's hybrid cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and other types of software through the Cloud Navigator Program that extends reach across the company's partner network and boosts visibility of cloud investments.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 23, 2020 —LMI has transitioned Christen Smith from her role as the company's vice president of management advisory services to a new post as VP of federal health and civilian market, GovCon Wire reported Tuesday.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has launched OneRecord, a consumer-facing health platform, to enable veterans to digitally access medical records from nationwide VA locations. Under the VA Lighthouse API program, OneRecord features a user-centered design, security and accessibility standards and is one of the first consumer-facing applications to connect veterans and their health data. 

Government agencies should follow the example of large commercial enterprises in modernizing information technology infrastructure with hybrid cloud computing architectures, writes IBM Chief Information Officer Fletcher Previn. In a blog post published Wednesday, he outlines a three-step framework the company has devised with the intent to help public sector leaders ensure agency systems are “Tomorrow Ready.”

Black Sage has received a contract of an undisclosed sum to deliver a counter-unmanned aircraft system technology for an electromagnetic weapon designed by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to defend air bases.