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AchieveIt has obtained an authority to operate status under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud-based software tool that features integrated plan management and execution capabilities. The authorization will allow AchieveIt to implement the software tool across the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Matt Grimm, chief operating officer of Anduril, said the defense technology company has approximately 400 employees and plans to increase its workforce to 700 to 800 by the end of 2021, Inside Defense reported Friday. Grimm said the company is looking for hardware and software engineers and employees with artificial intelligence skills.

Novetta has named Todd Massengill as vice president of emerging technologies within the company's Information Exploitation Division to lead strategic and operational initiatives. “We're excited to have a veteran with Todd's experience running the Emerging Technologies team,“ said Tiffanny Gates, Novetta president and CEO and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient.

Intelligent Waves has won a spot on a potential $950 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Air Force to support Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2). “Leveraging our exceptional capabilities to deliver secure information sharing, for joint all-domain operations (JADO), is a strategic asset that more Defense and Intelligence Communities can now deploy with our subject matter expertise,“ said Marqus Hutchinson, Intelligent Waves' chief technical officer (CTO). 

Northrop Grumman has secured a $325 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to continue its support of the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS). “The overall modification and sustainment work will ensure continuous safety and system readiness for the E-8C fleet against evolving threat environments,“ said Janice Zilch, vice president of manned airborne surveillance programs at Northrop Grumman.

Army Futures Command seeks white papers on ideas to prototype a future agile software development facility whose staff will exclusively be from the military. The command said Monday in a beta SAM notice it wants to establish the AFC Soldier-Led Software Factory with operations and training that comply with modern-day industry standards.

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC) has awarded Accenture Federal Services (AFS) a five-year blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to modernize the client case-management system of the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services (PPS) System. Under the BPA, AFS will help the AOUSC design, integrate, deploy and support a secure cloud-based client case-management system on a software-as-a-service platform.

Cubic's PIXIA subsidiary will continue to provide its software platforms for data management and dissemination to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency after NGA exercised the second option year under a five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.

Systems and Technology Research has won a potential $8.3M contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide software to support research and development work on models and seed designs related to unmanned underwater vehicles.

Accenture has formed Accenture Cloud First under a three-year, $3 billion investment. The division will help clients accelerate digital transformation to increase speed and scale. Accenture has appointed Karthik Narain to lead Accenture Cloud First and join the Global Management Committee, effective October 1. Accenture Cloud First is a multi-service group of 70,000 cloud professionals that will leverage Accenture's industry and technology capabilities and ecosystem partnerships.

Aaron Duchak, an 18-year software industry veteran, has been named regional vice president at MuleSoft's federal business, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Friday. formerly regional sales director at Splunk's federal unit

The Department of Defense and the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center have partnered to establish a 5G network at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.

Data analytics firm Palantir has received a contract to provide data and software services for the U.S. Space Force in support of the Kobayashi Maru project, SpaceNews reported Monday. The service branch's Space and Missile Systems Center kicked off Kobayashi Maru in 2019 to replace legacy space command-and-control software with new applications.

RunSafe Security has raised $3.5M in a new round of Series A financing from Lockheed Martin's venture capital arm and NextGen Venture Partners.

Executive Mosaic is honored to announce Gen. David Goldfein, chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for his efforts to advance digital architecture, software and operations as well as weapons and space capabilities for the USAF.