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James Onusko, a 15-year civil service veteran, has joined the special services subsidiary of LexisNexis Risk Solutions as director of federal strategy.

A new PwC report says the value of mergers and acquisitions in the global aerospace and defense industry was $58.3B in the second quarter of 2019 and the total deal value for year-to-date 2019 was $64.4B, increasing by 2.7x when compared with YTD 2018.

Four companies have won spots on a three-year, $99.5M firm-fixed-price contract to build drones as part of the U.S. Army's Future Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems program.

Blue Delta Capital Partners has appointed government services market veterans Donna Morea and Deepak Hathiramani to the advisory board of the McLean, Va.-based investment company. Morea serves as chair of the board of directors at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) and is the former president of CGI Group's (NYSE: GIB) technology and solutions subsidiary.

The Senate voted 89-1 Thursday to confirm Gen. Mark Milley, chief of staff at the U.S. Army and a 2019 Wash100 winner, as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He will succeed U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, a previous Wash100 winner, on Oct. 1.

The Carlyle Group (Nasdaq: CG) and Stellex Capital Management have agreed to buy Portland, Ore.-based defense and maritime services firm Vigor Industrial and combine it with Stellex-owned MHI Holdings for an undisclosed sum to form a combined ship repair and fabrications services company.

Robert Cardillo, founder and president of The Cardillo Group, has joined the board of directors at mission software developer Analytical Graphics Inc. The 35-year intelligence community veteran also serves as an advisory board member at Peraton, Beacon Global Strategies, Cesium and HawkEye 360, AGI said Wednesday.

A Fluor-led (NYSE: FLR) consortium will continue to help manage the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site in South Carolina under a $1.8B contract extension. Savannah River Nuclear Solutions manages the cleanup of facilities, wastes and materials used in nuclear weapons production during the Cold War.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), the U.S. Air Force and the F-35 Joint Program Office have began the integration of an anti-collision technology into the service branch's F-35A conventional takeoff and landing jets.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper, a 2019 Wash100 winner, has expressed satisfaction with the $738B fiscal 2020 defense budget agreed upon by the White House and Congress as part of a $1.4T spending deal, Defense News reported Thursday.