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Four commercial and nonprofit organizations have won spots on a potential five-year, $90M blanket purchase agreement to conduct social science research for the Food and Drug Administration, FedHealthIT reported Friday.

Dominic Delmolino, a veteran technology executive, has been named vice president of worldwide public sector technology and innovation at Amazon Web Services. He brings to the new role his experience in enterprise data systems, cloud and DevOps and as a senior leader at several federal information technology and consulting firms.

Taiwan is seeking recertification of Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile systems through an approximately $620M foreign military sales agreement approved by the State Department.

The Department of Defense has selected Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) to provide a command-and-control technology for interim use by the U.S. military to defend against small unmanned aerial systems. The selection of Northrop's Forward Area Air Defense C2 system came after a service board evaluated "best of breed" offerings that could support joint Counter-sUAS  missions, the company said Wednesday.

David Egts, chief technologist at Red Hat’s North American public sector business, explained in a video interview posted Thursday on FedScoop how a multicloud portfolio approach to information technology helps accelerate digital transformation efforts in the federal government.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is conducting market research on commercially available robotic process automation technologies that can help streamline clinical document processing functions for electronic health records systems.

Anthony Cristillo, a more than 25-year biomedical research professional, has joined Dovel Technologies’ Medical Science & Computing subsidiary as senior vice president of health information systems.

The State Department has approved potential sales of Raytheon Technologies-built (NYSE: RTX) MK 54 all-up round lightweight torpedoes worth $163.3M combined to the governments of Germany and Belgium.

The State Department has cleared Japan’s request to buy 105 units of Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) F-35 fighter jets, Pratt & Whitney-made aircraft engines and related equipment and services under a potential $23.11B foreign military sales agreement.

The Mission Essential Group has merged two intelligence business units, IMT LLC and Mission Essential’s Intel Analytics organization, to form Mission Essential Intelligence Solutions (MEIS), the company announced Thursday.