Tahera Zamanzada, director of digital strategy for the global public sector at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), said the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted government agencies to advance digital transformation and deliver better customer service through the adoption of cloud platforms.

KBR (NYSE: KBR) has finalized its portfolio review and is consolidating its three business segments into two segments - technology solutions and government solutions - as part of a restructuring effort.

Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) has received a potential three-year, $112M contract to provide managed information technology services for the Department of Homeland Security's data centers.

The Department of the Treasury has awarded 12 companies positions on a potential five-year, $625M blanket purchase agreement for shared financial management support services, FedScoop reported Wednesday.

Todd Probert, a veteran GovCon industry leader, has joined CACI International (NYSE: CACI) as president of the company's national security and innovative solutions sector, GovCon Wire has learned.

An ASRC Federal subsidiary has won positions on pools 1 and 3 of the General Services Administration’s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services – Small Business contract vehicle. ASRC Federal NetCentric will compete for task orders to provide agencies scientific, technical and professional services under the OASIS SB indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract’s first pool and engineering support services under the third pool, the company said Thursday.

Alain Bellemare, an aerospace industry veteran, has been appointed an operating executive within the global aerospace, defense and government services group at The Carlyle Group (Nasdaq: CG).

Vice Adm. Jon Hill, director of the Missile Defense Agency, said MDA has decided to delay the defensive hypersonic missile design effort to focus on near-term options, Defense News reported Tuesday.

Andy Green, president of the technical solutions group at Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and a 2020 Wash100 winner, said HII's equity investment in autonomous technology developer Sea Machines Robotics offers an opportunity for the miltary shipbuilder to help the U.S. Navy explore the potential of unmanned platforms.

The U.S. Marine Corps is working with the U.S. Army to procure and deploy by fiscal year 2022 a lightweight rocket system that will increase the Marines’ lethality and allow them to fire shots from an enclosed position.