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Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a $439.2M contract modification from the U.S. Army to build AH-64E Apache helicopters for Morocco. The company will also provide Longbow flight simulators to support crew training with the attack helicopter platform, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded six companies positions on a potential $975M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services with mid-endurance unmanned aircraft systems.

Eric Mackiewicz, a 19-year veteran of Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has been promoted to vice president of operations within the company's civilian markets customer group, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Thursday.

BAE Systems has secured a potential $266.9M contract modification to build an additional 159 Bradley A4 infantry fighting vehicles for the U.S. Army.

VariQ, a Rockville, Md.-based provider of cloud, cybersecurity and DevSecOps services to federal, local and state government agencies, has acquired Reston, Va.-based design and systems integration firm Rivet Logic for an undisclosed sum.

The U.S. Army has awarded Boeing (NYSE: BA) a contract to deliver the latest version of the company's AH-64 Apache combat helicopter platform to the Moroccan government under a foreign military sales transaction.

PAE (Nasdaq: PAE) has appointed Jerry Blixt, a 30-year intelligence community veteran, as an account director to help build up the company’s business portfolio with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office.

The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) a $333.4M contract modification to facilitate the low-rate initial production of three MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial systems for the Australian government.

Katherine Arrington, chief information security officer (CISO) for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition (OUSDA) for the Department of Defense (DoD) and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, served as a keynote speaker during Potomac Officers Club’s (POC) CMMC Virtual Forum 2020 on June 24th.

NASA has awarded Ball Aerospace a $96.9M delivery order to construct a spacecraft bus intended to help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration monitor weather-related phenomena in space.