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Tom Burt, head of the customer security and trust team at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has said the company will provide security updates to federally authorized voting systems that still use Windows 7, even after the decade-old operating system reaches its end of life phase in January 2020.

Northrop Grumman's (NYSE: NOC) innovation systems sector has won a potential eight-year, $1.12B contract to manufacture threat-representative subscale targets and re-entry vehicles for the Missile Defense Agency.

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has won a potential seven-year, $494.9M contract from the U.S. Air Force to replace solid-state radar modules designed to support missile defense, space surveillance and satellite warning operations at a military station located in England.

MicroTechnologies has landed a potential five-year, $160M contract to help the Air Combat Command operate and maintain communication systems installed at air operations centers.

Matthew Reeves, a project management professional with government information technology market experience, has been promoted to vice president of Department of Homeland Security sector operations at Steampunk, G2XChange ETC reported Friday.

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has won a potential five-year, $149.9M contract to design and develop software for the National Institutes of Health's Office of Extramural Research, according to a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday.

Herndon, Va.-based LDRM has secured a potential five-year, $388.9M contract from the State Department to provide professional services and support digitization efforts for U.S. visa pre-processing activities, according to a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday.

Bob Fortna, president of Fortinet’s (Nasdaq: FTNT) federal business, wrote in a Nextgov article published Friday that federal agencies should consider three cybersecurity threat trends and one is the tendency of threats to share public infrastructure.

Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK) has launched a venture arm to invest in startups that leverages data to improve business and bring about social change. The company said Wednesday Splunk Ventures is composed of the $100M Innovation Fund and the $50M Social Impact Fund.

Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) has received a potential $656.9M contract modification to continue to offer information technology support services to the U.S. Navy under the service’s Next Generation Enterprise Network program.