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Rick Wagner, a GovCon industry veteran and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, has joined Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) as corporate vice president of the company’s federal business, GovCon Wire has learned.

Reggie Brothers joined NuWave Solutions as CEO when investment firm AE Industrial Partners acquired majority ownership of the McLean, Va.-based government technology services provider last month. Brothers, a former Department of Homeland Security official and Peraton executive, shared with GovCon Wire what attracted him to NuWave.

U.K.-based defense technology company QinetiQ has signed a special security agreement with the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency to combine all of its defense and security operations in the U.S. under a single entity that will operate as QinetiQ Inc. Mary Williams, former president and CEO of sensor provider Manufacturing Techniques, will lead QinetiQ Inc. as president and CEO.

Eight U.S. carriers have secured contracts from the General Services Administration to provide discounted airfares to federal travelers during the government's 2021 fiscal year. Airlines will offer pre-negotiated and firm-fixed-price rates beginning Oct. 1 through the GSA's FY 2021 City Pair Program, the agency said Tuesday.

Alion Science and Technology has secured a five-year, $51M task order from the U.S. Air Force to explore opportunities for a potential  early network deployment in radiocommunication spectrum bands.

The Federal Communications Commission has issued a solicitation for a potential five-year, $204M contract for program management and software development support services, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday.

Keith Conner, formerly the senior director of innovation at Peraton, has joined McLean, Va.-based professional services firm NuWave Solutions as its new chief technology officer.

Katy Mann, a two-decade government technology sales veteran, has been promoted to area vice president for federal civilian agencies at data management software provider Splunk. Mann most recently served as director of national security programs at the San Francisco-based company and led the delivery of its operational intelligence offerings to defense and intelligence customers.

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy recently discussed how cloud-based services have expanded the at-home economy in the COVID-19 era, the rapid growth of cloud and the innovation stemming from cloud services.  “In the first half dozen years or so of AWS you mostly saw startups using the platform. What's happened over the last seven or eight years is that the enterprise and the public sector have started to adopt AWS and the cloud in a very pervasive way,” Jassy said.

Vertex Aerospace has been awarded a spot on full rate production multiple-award contract by the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division. "The combination of our CMMARS and FRP MAC contract seats will allow us to display our full range of capabilities to solve every aircraft modification, systems integration and maintenance challenge as a full life-cycle sustainment company," said Ed Boyington, CEO and president of Vertex Aerospace.