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David Young, senior vice president of Lumen’s Public Sector and global hyperscaler business and a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding CenturyLink’s recent rebranding to Lumen Technologies. He discussed Lumen’s new initiatives, advanced platform for managing data and applications, and work across government agencies to support real-time decision making. 

EverWatch announced its acquisition of BrainTrust Holdings, a leading provider of innovative technology solutions to the intelligence and defense communities, on Monday for an undisclosed sum to further expand technical service offerings and contract pursuits in the intelligence sector. The deal was overseen by Baird, who served as the exclusive financial advisor to BrainTrust for the acquisition.

Mitre has tapped Nadia Schadlow, formerly U.S. deputy national security adviser for strategy and Daniela Rus, director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to serve as senior visiting fellows.

Fluor has secured a contract of an undisclosed sum through the U.S. Army’s Logistics Civil Augmentation Program IV vehicle to continue the provision of forward operating support services.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 22, 2020 — A Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) experimental technology launched recently on board a Tyvak nanosatellite seeks to demonstrate mesh communications and space-to-ground sensing, ExecutiveGov reported Thursday.

Mark Testoni, CEO of SAP National Security Services and a 2019 Wash100 winner, said that companies’ executive leadership must incorporate a culture of security as international tensions bring risks to U.S. cybersecurity, Dark Reading reported Thursday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 21, 2020 — The Federal Aviation Administration  Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) to upgrade a system that helps airport personnel manage the arrival and departure of aircraft, GovCon Wire reported Wednesday.

Amazon Web Services partnered with Credence Management Solutions to complete the migration of five applications operated by the Defense Logistics Agency to the AWS GovCloud environment.

The Department of the Interior has awarded CenturyLink a potential $1.6 billion task order via the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract vehicle to provide managed network services to support DOI's information technology modernization efforts, the company announced on Thursday.

LMI has secured $1.2B in contract awards and earned a revenue of $329M in fiscal year 2019, representing respective increases of 39 percent and 24 percent from FY17.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 15, 2020 — AECOM’s (NYSE: ACM) management services business will help modernize and sustain U.S. Army equipment and vehicles under a potential three-year, $520M task order, GovCon Wire reported Jan. 3.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 13, 2020 — AECOM’s (NYSE: ACM) management services group will provide integrated logistics services for U.S. Army tactical equipment as part of a potential five-year, $192M task order awarded under the General Services Administration Schedule contract, GovCon Wire reported Thursday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 10, 2020 — Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) collaborated with PRA Health Sciences (Nasdaq: PRAH) to develop a web software platform to help the Department of Veterans Affairs recruit and engage potential health research volunteers nationwide, GovCon Wire reported Wednesday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 8, 2020 — Amazon Web Services, Google (Nasdaq: GOOGL) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) received contracts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to make the agency’s environmental data available on the companies’ cloud platforms, GovCon Wire reported Dec. 23.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 7, 2020 — Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) is moving to advance its government market position through its proposed acquisition of applied research and national security services provider Dynetics for approximately $1.65B cash, GovCon Wire reported Dec. 18.