Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) has named Angela James, formerly senior account executive for the Department of Defense at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), as a business development executive. Lauren Ingram, who previously worked at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) in Veterans Affairs business development role, has taken the position of health client executive at Perspecta.

Thomson Reuters has secured a multiyear contract from the Administration Office of the U.S. Courts to provide federal judiciary professionals access to company-built legal research tools. "We are honored that the AO has again chosen Westlaw for its legal research needs," said Steve Rubley, president of Thomson Reuters' government segment and a two-time Wash100 Award recipient.

The National Information Technology Acquisitions and Assessment Center announced at a contract holder meeting Tuesday that it could issue a draft request for proposals for the recompete of its $20B Chief Information Officer–Solutions and Partners contract in March, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday.

The Air Force Research Laboratory is seeking contractor support to develop, evaluate and demonstrate a technology to counter small unmanned aircraft systems that use commercial off-the-shelf tools. In a notice posted Tuesday on beta.SAM.gov, AFRL said it plans to procure services through a single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-qantity contract worth potentially $490M over six years.

Phil Pitsky, vice president of federal operations at Dedrone, said the company has "grand visions" about the potential use of an unmanned aircraft system countermeasure technology, Inside Defense reported Friday. He was referring to DroneDefender, an anti-small UAS system the San Francisco-based firm acquired from Battelle in October.

The Virginia Contracting Activity has finalized a request for proposals for a potential $990M multiple-award Defense Intelligence Agency contract vehicle with a five-year ordering period for data collection and management support services. Data Science, Operations, Requirements, Exploitation and Engineering proposals are due Jan. 17.

Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO, has said he believes the company's partnerships with multiple cloud providers could support its pursuit of additional contracts in the government market, Fierce Telecom reported Wednesday. "We do expect that through those partnerships that we'll have a thriving government business, both on-premise as we have had as well as in hybrid and cloud offerings," Gelsinger told analysts during a recent earnings call.

Boeing (NYSE: BA) is set to receive a potential $1B contract to modernize NATO's fleet of E-3A Airborne Warning and Control Systems under an initiative to extend AWACS support for alliance missions through 2035.

ASRC Federal has secured a potential five-year, $354M contract to help NASA plan and manage the space agency's programs, missions and projects. NASA said Tuesday the company's systems solutions unit will support documentation, scheduling, configuration, general business and earned value management functions under the Program Analysis and Control V contract.

The Department of Energy will earmark up to $100M for projects that aim to expand current understanding of the universe through experimental or theoretical studies about high-energy physics. Interested companies, universities and nonprofit organizations can apply for the funding opportunity.