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IBM (NYSE: IBM) has received a Maturity Level 5 rating under the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration V2.0 appraisal program for the company's commitment to maintaining delivery and quality standards.

Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has introduced a coaxial helicopter concept for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program, which is meant to address the U.S. Army's vertical lift requirements.

A General Atomics business unit will produce mechanical, cabling and electrical systems for the U.S. Army's Common Hypersonic Glide Body program as part of a Dynetics-led industry team that won a $351.6M other transaction agreement in September.

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has delivered 40 Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular devices to the U.S. Army as part of a $391M contract awarded last year. The company said Monday it received two more delivery orders worth $153M combined to deliver 7K additional systems and provide logistics support services.

Hilary Hageman, a veteran business and legal professional, has been named senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary at Cubic (NYSE: CUB).

Michael Montoya, a more than 12-year veteran of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has joined data center services provider Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) as chief information security officer.

The Carlyle Group (Nasdaq: CG) and Stellex Capital Management completed the acquisition and merger of Vigor Industrial and MHI Holdings three months after they announced the transaction in an effort to form a combined ship repair and fabrications services company.

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has secured a potential five-year, $926M contract to help the Transportation Security Administration maintain equipment used to perform checkpoint screening operations.

Affiliates of private equity firms Lindsay Goldberg and American Securities have agreed to acquire AECOM’s (NYSE: ACM) management services business for $2.4B.

Brent Hansen, federal chief technology officer and director of sales engineering for cloud protection and licensing activity at Thales, has said government agencies and industry should collaborate to come up with strategies designed to protect data in the cloud or in data centers.