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The federal business of Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has received a one-year, $65.4M other transaction agreement from the U.S. Air Force to conduct risk reduction efforts for an enterprise information technology-as-a-service platform. Accenture Federal Services will help the military branch develop, operate and maintain a hosting platform for storing and processing applications and data, the Department of Defense said Friday.

Karoom Brown, chief global strategy, products and growth officer at OptumServe, has been promoted to the CEO position at Optum's federal health information technology services subsidiary, G2Xchange Health reported Thursday.

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a $96.6M contract modification from the U.S. Special Operations Command to continue manufacturing terrain following and terrain avoidance radars. The modification increases the total potential value of the Silent Knight Radar contract to $300M and covers low-rate initial production of the system, the Department of Defense said Friday.

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has been awarded a three-year, $72.8M contract to help the U.S. Navy build a wide area surveillance technology to support antisubmarine warfare missions. The company will develop the Transformational Reliable Acoustic Path System for the Navy's Maritime Surveillance Systems Program Office, the Department of Defense said Friday.

Oshkosh (NYSE: OSK) obtained approval Thursday to begin the full-rate production of Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, nearly four years after the company won a $6.7B contract to build the new armored vehicle platform for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps.

A business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has secured a potential five-year, $276.5M contract to extend its support work on a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services system used to manage benefits and payments for a federal health insurance program. General Dynamics Information Technology will support Medicare customer service, electronic data exchange, debt transaction processing and digital imaging functions of the Benefits Coordination & Recovery Center, the company said Friday.

Harris (NYSE: HRS) and L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) set June 29, Saturday, as the closing date for their all-stock merger deal after they secured the regulatory clearances needed to complete the transaction.

President Donald Trump nominated Mark Esper, secretary of the U.S. Army and a 2019 Wash100 winner, to serve as the next secretary of the Department of Defense, The New York Times reported Friday.

The Department of Homeland Security has chosen Battelle as one of the eight finalists for a two-phase, $1.55M contest that seeks nonintrusive systems to automatically detect opioids in mail coming into the U.S.

The General Services Administration has selected TechFlow to update and maintain a platform-as-a-service offering designed to help federal agencies create information technology applications that meet government security requirements.