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Vice Adm. Robert Sharp, the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and a 2019 Wash100 Award recipient, will be featured as a keynote speaker for Potomac Officers Club’s 6th Annual Intel Summit on July 31st. Don’t wait to register for the summit right here.

DynCorp International has won a potential five-year, $118.7M task order via the Contracted Maintenance, Modification, Aircrew and Related Services contract vehicle to provide logistics support for U.S. Marine Corps aircraft.

Senior leaders from Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Airbus reaffirmed their partnership to explore and meet the aerial refueling needs of the U.S. military during a meeting at the Paris Air Show.

Parsons (NYSE: PSN) reported $904M in revenue for the first quarter of 2019, up 20 percent from the same period last year. The Pasadena, Calif.-based company said Tuesday it posted $1.2B in contract awards during the quarter with a total backlog of $8.6B and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.4x.

Shayne Higdon, a former executive at software vendor BMC, has joined cybersecurity company Forcepoint as chief operating officer. He will oversee operations, engineering, product management, customer support and service organizations in his new role, Forcepoint said Wednesday.

Dell Federal Systems has won a firm fixed order and a six-month extension worth $96.7M combined to renew Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) software licenses for the Defense Health Agency, the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Army. Seventy-two customers will receive licensing renewal services for software products such as VISIO Professional and Windows Server Standard, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

A joint venture of Davidson Technologies and nLogic won a potential five-year, $255.9M contract to provide infrastructure for the Missile Defense Agency to conduct hardware-in-the-loop and ground tests of a ballistic missile defense system.

A McAleese & Associates report says the merged company of L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) and Harris (NYSE: HRS) would invest 4 percent of $18B combined revenue in independent research-and-development efforts.

ArmorWorks Enterprises has secured a potential five-year, $206.1M contract to supply the U.S. Air Force with payload transporters. Hill AF Base's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Contracting Division procured the transport vehicles on a sole-source basis and obligated $31.3M in fiscal 2018 procurement funds, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a potential five-year, $274M contract for environmental test and integration engineering services to technology development programs at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.