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Market experts said another wave of mergers and acquisitions in the defense sector might be in the offing driven by possible changes in federal spending and taxes linked to any potential administration change, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday.

William Mintz, former vice president of strategy at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and a more than 25-year industry professional, has joined Cerner (Nasdaq: CERN) as its new chief strategy officer.

The Office of Personnel Management has begun to seek information to help inform its acquisition strategy for a potential five-year, $640M follow-on contract for e-learning services, Bloomberg Government reported Wednesday.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Herndon, Va.-based artificial intelligence platform maker Geospark Analytics a potential five-year, $95M contract to help the U.S. Space Force commercialize the company's Hyperion predictive analytics technology.

Stephanie Shutt, director of the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Program Management Office (PMO) at the General Services Administration (GSA), was featured during GovConWire’s most recent 2020 Business Development Forum on Aug. 27th. You can still register here to watch the BD Forum in its entirety through GovConWire’s Event Archive. 

Applied Composites Holdings, a portfolio company of private equity firm AE Industrial Partners, has made its fifth acquisition with its purchase of composite structures provider Alliance Spacesystems for an undisclosed sum.

Vertosoft has secured a position on the five-year, $13 billion Information Technology Enterprise Solutions (ITES) – Software 2 (SW2) contract from the Army Contracting Command to provide commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software and maintenance support to the Department of Defense (DoD) and other federal agencies, the company said Tuesday.

On Wednesday, Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its latest virtual event, Secure IT Modernization in Today’s Environment, featuring a keynote address from Michael Mestrovich for the U.S. Department of State. If you missed the event, you can still register to watch the full event in Potomac Officers Club’s Event Archive.

Marilyn Crouther, a 30-year GovCon and technology industry leader and a four-time Wash100 awardee, has joined the board of directors of ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI).

Cornell Technical Services will continue to help NASA review programs, missions and proposals at the Hampton, Virginia-based Langley Research Center over the next five years under a $111.8M follow-on contract.