Simulation platform maker Ansys has agreed to acquire Exton, Pennsylvania-based software company Analytical Graphics Inc. for $700M in a move to expand the former’s satellite technology simulation portfolio.

CyberCore has published a white paper regarding the government’s upcoming regulations and how they will impact the federal community, the company reported on Tuesday. The federal government has developed regulations to mitigate risk across the industrial base. “Current regulations in the DFAR regarding the protection of Covered Defense Information (CDI) and supply chain responsibilities are being strengthened by these new regulations,” Kuhn said. 

Ashok Sankar, director of industry marketing, public sector and education at Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK), said agencies moving to the cloud to accommodate remote work should have granular visibility into data in order to generate security and operational insights.

MacLean Engineering & Applied Technologies has secured a potential five-year, $100M contract to help NASA develop integrate, validate, analyze, document, maintain and troubleshoot a Trick-based simulation environment.

Steven Irish, former vice president of the government business at LexisNexis, has joined Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) as VP and general manager of financial and regulatory operations, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Friday.

The U.S. Space Force has awarded United Launch Services and SpaceX firm-fixed-price contracts to perform launch services under the second phase of the National Security Space Launch program.

A United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s Perseverance rover lifted off Thursday from a launch complex at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida as part of the Mars 2020 mission.

A Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY) subsidiary has received a potential six-year, $83.6M contract from the U.S. Navy to develop modeling and simulation tools for the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego. Teledyne Brown Engineering will conduct research and development of information technology applications for NHRC medical planners, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.

An L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) subsidiary has received a $73.8M contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to provide X-ray simulation technology to support testing operations focused on nuclear survivability.

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a 10-year, $900M contract to help the U.S. Air Force design, produce, deploy and sustain a common architecture for training simulators.