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Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) held a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday in Hampton, Virginia, for its center of excellence for development, production and test of unmanned systems.

The U.S. Space Force has awarded Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) space business an $85M contract modification to extend logistics support for sensor-equipped satellites built to detect missile launches worldwide.

The Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification has undergone an interagency review as part of a rulemaking process needed to make CMMC a part of the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations, FedScoop reported Tuesday.

Life Cycle Engineering and McKean Defense Group have been selected to help the U.S. Navy engineer shipboard navigational equipment under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth potentially $78.3M over five years.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is soliciting proposals for a potential 10-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide information technology services and data center support for designated GEOINT operations.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has launched a ground station as a service designed to help customers communicate with their satellites and downlink and process satellite data using the Azure cloud platform.

Sarjoo Shah, former chief information officer of Oklahoma’s Department of Health and Human Services, has joined Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) as head of its state and local health information technology programs.

Core Technologies has won a potential $482.9M task order to provide telephony and conferencing services for the Department of the Interior.

Mitre has established the Center for Data-Driven Policy to provide evidence-based, objective and nonpartisan insights to government policymaking, the company reported on Tuesday.  “We want to expand the role of outcome-based research and information in the policy domain, through our experience, our technology, and our unique access to data,” said Jason Providakes, Mitre president and CEO and Wash100 Award recipient.

Ted Wagner, vice president and chief information security officer at SAP National Security Services, said government agencies should have the right balance of technology, processes and people to ensure that cloud security can better manage cyber threats in the digital landscape. Wagner wrote how SAP NS2 strives to have that balance by taking measures such as adopting machine learning, automation and behavior analytics in security monitoring efforts, attracting the top talent and getting the process right.