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Ian Brown, a former Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) senior associate, has been named director of federal civil markets at information technology company Avantus Federal, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Monday. He brings over two decades of business leadership experience to the role, having held positions at Booz Allen, Galorath and the New York Independent Budget Office.

AAR's (NYSE: AIR) government services unit has won a five-year, $148.4M contract to perform logistics services for the U.S. Navy's C-40A Clipper aircraft. The company will help the Navy maintain C-40A units, associated subsystems and support equipment, the Department of Defense said Monday.

PAE (Nasdaq: PAE) has closed its $92M cash acquisition of Metis Solutions as part of efforts to expand its offerings and capabilities in intelligence analysis, training and program support areas.

PAE (Nasdaq: PAE) has closed its $208M cash acquisition of Burlington, Massachusetts-based intelligence analysis service provider Centra Technology in a deal PAE President and CEO John Heller says will expand the Falls Church, Virginia-based contractor's addressable government market areas.

Amazon Web Services, Google (Nasdaq: GOOGL), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) have been awarded spots on a potential multibillion-dollar, Commercial Cloud Enterprise indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract from the Central Intelligence Agency, Nextgov reported Friday.

Lani Kass, former senior vice president and corporate strategic advisor for CACI International (NYSE: CACI), has joined Redhorse's advisory board. She will share her expertise in the national security market to support Redhorse's engagement across the government's technology- and data-related pursuits, the company said Monday.

Lauren Knausenberger, deputy chief information officer at the U.S. Air Force, will participate in a fireside chat during GovConWire’s Defense Digital Acquisition and Modernization Forum on Dec. 1. To register for the virtual event and know about other must-see opportunities, visit GovConWire’s Event Page.

Blake Nelson, a more than two-decade industry veteran and former Accenture executive, has taken the role of vice president and general manager at Pragmatics, where he will collaborate with the company's technology solutions group and business development team to explore various customer delivery efforts such as DevSecOps adoption and big data analytics systems.

PAE's (Nasdaq: PAE) applied technologies unit has secured a potential $98M contract to provide aircrew tactics evaluation and combat training activities in electronic warfare to the U.S. Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa.

The U.S. Air Force intends to award a potential 10-year, sole-source contract to Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) to provide sustainment support services for the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft.