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The defense segments of Oshkosh (NYSE: OSK) and Flyer Next have received a task assignment to develop an expeditionary ground vehicle prototype for the U.S. Army.

The Customs and Border Protection migrated its Automated Commercial System’s collections processing functions to IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) SmartCloud for Government platform in June as part of efforts to achieve cost savings and reduce its physical information technology infrastructure, Nextgov reported Friday.

The Washington Headquarters Services has awarded a four-year, $100M contract to Signature Renovations for construction services at the Pentagon building in Arlington, Va., and surrounding reservation area. The company will perform design-build and bid-build work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Department of Defense said Friday.

A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) NASSCO subsidiary has secured a potential $1.63B contract modification to build and design the sixth and seventh Expeditionary Sea Base ships for the U.S. Navy.

Stephen Prosser, a veteran intelligence community leader, has joined the IC team of Annapolis, Md.-based federal management consulting firm Deep Water Point.

This week, Capital One signed an agreement to acquire KippsDeSanto & Co., a leading investment banking firm focused on serving growth-oriented aerospace/defense, government services and technology companies.  “Joining Capital One was a natural next step in the growth plan for us at KippsDeSanto,” said Kevin DeSanto, co-founder and managing director …

A second GPS III satellite that Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) built for the U.S. Air Force has responded to commands and used an internal propulsion system while cruising toward its operational orbit.

David Egts, chief technologist for North America public sector at Red Hat, wrote in an FCW commentary piece published Thursday that there are four best practices federal information technology administrators should consider adopting to support their agencies’ IT modernization efforts and one is focusing on people and processes.

Atlas Research has won a contract to help the Department of Veterans Affairs update and simplify its platform for processing disability compensation claims. Washington, D.C.-based Atlas said Thursday it partnered with Amida and Prometheus Federal Services to develop a system for VA personnel to collect evidentiary materials needed to process claims for military veterans.

Enterprise Technical Assistance Services will provide technical support services to a Department of Energy project office that oversees environmental legacy cleanup efforts at Portsmouth and Paducah uranium enrichment sites under a potential $97.1M contract, according to a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday.