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Janet Foutty, currently chairman and CEO of Deloitte Consulting LLP and previously leader of Deloitte‘s federal practice, has been nominated by the board of directors to the role of U.S. chairman, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. The report said the professional services firm’s partners and principals will vote early next year …

Textron (NYSE: TXT) will obtain additional materials needed to build landing craft air cushion vehicles under a five-year, $314.3M contract modification from the U.S. Navy. The company will use the funds to acquire long lead time components for LCAC class crafts 109 through 123 and to continue pre-fabrication work on crafts 109 …

Italy-based conglomerate Leonardo has moved to combine three divisions into a new electronics division as part of growth efforts in the defense and security technology market. Leonardo said Thursday the new business will consolidate the firm’s land and naval defence electronics, airborne and space systems and defense systems businesses. The …

Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) missile systems business has received a potential four-year, $149.4M contract to engineer, manufacture and develop a Block IIIC configuration of the U.S. Navy‘s Standard Missile-2 system. Work will occur in Arizona, Colorado, Ohio, New York and England through October 2022 under the cost-plus-incentive contract, the Department of Defense …

OSI Systems‘ (Nasdaq: OSIS) Spacelabs Healthcare subsidiary has won a potential 10-year, $450M contract to provide patient monitoring systems, accessories and training services to U.S. military branches and federal civilian agencies. The Defense Logistics Agency awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that contains a five-year base period and one five-year option, the Department of Defense …

Barbie Bigelow, formerly senior vice president and chief information officer of  Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC), has been appointed CIO at engineering, construction and consulting services contractor Black & Veatch. She will oversee Black & Veatch’s digital strategy and information technology group that offers tools and technology platforms needed to build …

Howell Estes, a board member at Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) since October 2017, has been named chairman of the company’s board of directors in a move that will take effect Jan. 1. He will succeed Robert Phillips, who will continue to serve on the board, the company said Thursday. “Howell’s wealth …

TechFlow has received a potential five-year, $967.9M contract from the Department of Homeland Security to maintain and provide logistics support for explosive detection systems. A FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday says the contract covers preventive maintenance; calibration and test equipment; radiation surveys; tools; parts obsolescence; and supply support for detection platforms deployed …

Kim Skvorak, former deputy chief information officer at the National Security Agency, has joined Deep Water Point as principal of the intelligence community sector team at the Annapolis, Md.-based federal management consulting firm. She brings more than 25 years of information security planning and forecasting, project management and software and system engineering experience …

Four companies have secured other transaction agreements to explore the possibility of creating a single, lightweight, man-portable system for the U.S. Marine Corps to locate, acquire and counter targets. BAE Systems, Elbit Systems of America (Nasdaq: ESLT), Fraser Optics and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will examine potential systems for USMC’s Next Generation Handheld Targeting System, …