Margaret Dean, a 26-year U.S. Navy veteran and formerly strategic adviser for the asymmetric operations sector at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has assumed new roles as chief government relations officer and secretary of the board of managers at APL.

Ron Ford, formerly a vice president at engineering and information technology services provider Belcan, has joined ASRC Federal as vice president with responsibility over the company's Department of Energy business, G2XChange ETC reported Monday.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has won a potential $60M cost reimbursement contract from the U.S. Air Force to design, verify, fabricate and test a prototype neural inference processor. The Air Force Research Laboratory received two offers for the project via a competitive acquisition process.

A U.S. Air Force program office has kicked off the solicitation phase for a follow-on program seeking rocket platforms designed to carry more than 400 pounds of payload.

Textron's (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary has received Federal Aviation Administration certification under instrument flight rules for single-engine aircraft being offered to the U.S. Navy's Advanced Helicopter Training System.

Honeywell (NYSE: HON) has received a potential $110.9M contract modification to provide hardware required to overhaul engines that power the U.S. Army's Abrams tanks. Services under the contract are intended to address Advanced Gas Turbine 1500 production requirements at Anniston Army Depot and support field repair efforts under the Total Integrated Engine Revitalization program, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

Sean DuGuay, a three-decade information technology industry veteran, has joined ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) as vice president of business development, G2Xchange ETC reported Wednesday.

BAE Systems has secured a follow-on contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create machine learning tools for U.S. military personnel to gain space situational awareness.

ARES Technical Services Corporation has won a potential seven-year, $115.3M contract to support a NASA program focused on developing facilities and systems necessary to launch rockets and space vehicles.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded seven companies spots on a potential five-year, $95M contract to modernize, repair, maintain or build facilities at Kirtland AF Base in New Mexico. The AF Installation Contracting Center received 16 bids for the multiple-award IDIQ and obligated $1.6M at the time of award, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.