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President Donald Trump intends to nominate Gen. Mark Milley, chief of staff at the U.S. Army and a two-time Wash100 winner, as the next Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, Defense.gov reported Saturday. Milley, who assumed his current role in August 2015, would become the 20th JCS leader and succeed U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph …

Russell Marsh, a 12-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, has been appointed vice president and general manager of Leonardo DRS’ naval power systems business. He will be based in Milwaukee, Wis., and will oversee the unit that offers power, control, heating and cooling systems, as well as oil and gas products, Leonardo DRS said …

RER Solutions has won a potential five-year, 100M contract to help the the U.S. Small Business Administration analyze data in disaster loan applications and provide recommendations to the SBA’s Office of Disaster Assistance. The agency said Friday in a FedBizOpps it received 10 proposals for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and selected the winning contractor …

Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) has made headway in its U.S. domestication effort after it received approval from the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Canada for certain changes the company made to its arrangement plan. The company said Friday the arrangement plan allows it to directly purchase common shares from shareholders …

General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) Electric Boat subsidiary will continue to provide lead yard support and conduct development studies and design efforts for the U.S. Navy’s Virginia-class submarines through the end of fiscal year 2019 under a $346.5M contract modification. The modification covers maintenance, engineering, design improvement, systems integration, logistics and …

Savneet Singh, a board member at PAR Technology (NYSE: PAR), has been appointed president and CEO of the New Hartford, N.Y.-based tech platforms provider on an acting basis. Singh’s appointment took effect on Dec. 4 after Donald Foley stepped down from his roles as CEO, president and director, PAR said …

The U.S. Air Force has selected four companies to provide maintenance support at multiple air bases under a potential six-year, $160M contract. Contractors will help the military service maintain the Ogden Air Logistics Complex at Hill AF Base, Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan AFB, Vandenberg AFB, Malmstrom AFB, Minot AFB, …

Fluor (NYSE: FLR) has won a potential $145.7M firm-fixed-price contract to build a facility for the U.S. Army to store and maintain weapons systems. The Army Corps of Engineers received five bids for the project that is scheduled for completion by April 17, 2020, the Department of Defense said Friday. Work will …

Accenture Federal Services has secured a $2B contract with the Department of Energy‘s Office of the Chief Information Officer to provide business operations support services, G2Xchange ETC reported. More information will follow as it becomes available.  

During the 2018 Amazon Web Services re:Invent event, held Nov. 25th through Nov. 30th, Novetta participated in two cyber platform launches. The McLean, Va.- based analytics technology company assisted in the launch of the AWS Snowball Edge with a Graphic Processing Unit (GPU). Novetta was also a featured partner in the launch …