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Government technology market veterans Matt Warren and John Harllee have been named co-chief operating officers of information technology and management consulting services provider Strategic Enterprise Solutions. Warren will oversee the McLean, Va.-based company’s emerging markets sector and Harllee will manage overall corporate operations as well as growth efforts under the …

Cloud-based talent management software provider Acendre has acquired ICS Learning Group for an undisclosed sum. “Acendre is dedicated to partnering with customers who have complex hiring and development processes that must be automated to compete for talent,” Acendre CEO Mike Giuffrida said in a statement published Monday. Giuffrida noted the transaction …

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has agreed to acquire Cray (Nasdaq: CRAY) for approximately $1.3B in cash, or $35 per share, in a move to expand high-performance computing technology offerings. HPE said Friday it expects the deal to conclude by the first quarter of its fiscal year 2020 and to …

In the last two weeks, DynCorp International (DI) has been awarded both Aviation Field Maintenance Contracts for the U.S. Army, one in the East Region and one in the West Region. The combined value of the contracts is approximately $3.5 billion. The two contracts replace a number of Army Aviation …

Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary will build and deliver a total of 12 CH-53K King Stallion helicopters to the U.S. Navy under a $1.13B contract modification. This award is for low-rate initial production lots 2 and 3 including logistics support and aircraft system spares, the Department of Defense said …

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has been awarded a $2.35B contract modification by the U.S. Navy to provide research, development and engineering services to Department of Defense programs. This award increases the maximum ceiling amount of APL’s indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to $7.11B, the Pentagon said Friday. Naval Sea Systems Command …

By Light Professional IT Services has acquired cyber training services contractor Metova Federal for an undisclosed sum. “This acquisition will allow us to expand and diversify our cyber offering to better serve our customers,” Bob Donahue, CEO and founder of By Light, said in a statement published Friday. Cabot, Ark.-based Metova Federal provides …

NASA has awarded eight U.S. firms a total of $4M to investigate concepts that will aid existing and future space transmission systems. The goal of their five-month research period is to gain data that will assist near-Earth missions that are scheduled to begin in the mid-2020s. The agency said Thursday …

Actionable Solutions Group won a potential five-year, $240.6M contract to help the U.S. Special Operations Command analyze intelligence data. The command received 14 proposals for the single-award contract via a competition that was set aside for service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses and is obligating $2,500 at the time of award, the …

Boeing (NYSE: BA) received a potential two-year, $163.9M amendment under a U.S. Navy contract for aircraft service life modification work. The company said Friday it will continue to modernize the Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet jets and establish a second SLM line under the program. Establishment of a San Antonio-based line …