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Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) has been selected to integrate, launch and operate a space-based instrument built to help NASA scientists conduct monitor air quality and measure pollutants across North America.

Thomas Casale, former president of L3 Technologies' radome manufacturing business, has joined Cobham as vice president and general manager of communications, navigation and identification and interconnect solutions unit. He will lead the business area that operates within Cobham's advanced electronic solutions sector and brings 30 years of radiofrequency and microwave industry experience to his new role, the company said Monday.

A new McAleese & Associates report says the full Senate is expected to decide Tuesday on the nomination of Army Secretary and 2019 Wash100 winner Mark Esper to be the next secretary of the Department of Defense.

AASKI Tehcnology will help the U.S. Army operate and maintain sensors under a potential $673M task order awarded through the service branch's Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services contract vehicle.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) will invest $1B in San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research company OpenAI to create new AI supercomputing technologies on the Azure cloud platform under a multiyear partnership.

The U.S. Army has launched a full and open competition for a potential seven-year, $823.3M contract that will cover upgrade work on components of the Distributed Common Ground System-Army.

Dan Davis, area vice president for federal civilian sales at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has said delivering a seamless service to citizens calls for federal agencies to establish an “omni-channel experience that protects existing agency investments and simply meets agency customers where they are.”

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has placed a strategic investment in ABL Space Systems to help accelerate the development and testing of the latter's first launch vehicle designed for small satellite missions.

Parsons (NYSE: PSN) has agreed to buy radio frequency products developer QRC Technologies from private equity firm DC Capital Partners for approximately $215M in cash in a push to expand its portfolio of products in the RF and signals intelligence sector.

Systems Planning and Analysis has purchased Veracity Forecasting and Analysis for an undisclosed sum in a move to further operations analysis support for national defense and security platforms. SPA CEO William Vantine said the company also seeks to expand technical offerings in the data science and software development areas through the acquisition.