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Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a subcontract to help Made in Space demonstrate an in-orbit manufacturing system for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. The industry team aims to deploy a 3D printing robot in space as part of the agency's Archinaut mission, Northrop said Tuesday. MIS received a $74M prime contract to conduct the flight demonstration.

Cubic (NYSE: CUB) has broken ground on a campus that will consolidate two main company facilities located in San Diego into a new global headquarters.

Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) are moving to the next bidding round for a U.S. Air Force competition that seeks to build a new intercontinentinal ballistic missile weapon system.

The Defense Information Systems Agency will use the National Institutes of Health’s Information Technology Acquisition Assistance Contract to procure cybersecurity services instead of conducting a full and open competition for the procurement effort, Nextgov reported Tuesday.

Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware (NYSE: VMW), wrote in a GCN article published Tuesday that there are three technologies federal agencies can adopt to transform the mobility experience of their employees and adhere to security policies and one of them is an enterprise mobility management system.

Eric Gonzales, who holds nearly 10 years of federal health information technology market experience, has joined Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) as director of business development for the company's veterans affairs account, FedHealthIT reported Tuesday.

Charles Hicks, former chief operating officer and chief financial officer of SC3, has joined NCI Information Systems as executive vice president, CFO and corporate treasurer. “Chuck is a well-known change agent and a highly respected finance/business leader in the GovCon market,” Paul Dillahay, president and CEO of NCI and a former Wash100 Award winner, said in a statement released Tuesday.

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential $110M contract to establish a cybersecurity operations center and provide related support services for a country in the Middle East and North Africa region.

W.B. "Mitch" Mitchell, a more than 25-year health care industry veteran, has been appointed group vice president of government solutions at Boston-based telehealth technology provider American Well.

The Department of Energy plans to award $121M worth of research and development grants to 103 small businesses from across 29 U.S. states. DOE said Monday the money will support R&D efforts under the second phase of its Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs.