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The White House and Congress have reached a deal that would suspend the debt limit until the end of July 2021 and raise federal spending over two years, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The two-year budget deal worth more than $2.7T would increase federal spending by about $320B over a couple of years above budget caps set in the Budget Control Act of 2011.

Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Ellen Lord, undersecretary of defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (A&S) with the Department of Defense, with her third Wash100 Award on Thursday. 

Brit Systems has secured a potential 10-year, $400M contract with the Defense Logistics Agency to provide and maintain a digital imaging network of picture archiving communications systems. The system would function as an archive for medical images intended for the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies, the Department of Defense said Friday.

Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Walden Security has won three contracts worth up to $491.2M from the U.S. Marshals Service to provide physical security services to court facilities within the 6th, 7th and 11th federal judicial circuits.

Progeny Systems has received a potential eight-year, $93.2M contract to engineer systems for the U.S. and Australian navies. Australia's navy will provide $1.2M in initial funds on the contract and the U.S. Navy will obligate $709,443 at the time of award.

Leonardo's training helicopter offering for the U.S. Navy has received supplemental type certification from the Federal Aviation Administration under instrument flight rules. TH-119 is based on the AW119 single-engine helicopter and designed to operate in low visibility and extreme weather conditions, the company said Thursday.

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has agreed to join the Artemis Industry Association under an agreement with the U.K. ministry of defense to help the British government further its small satellite programs and develop space technology platforms.

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has promoted 33-year company veteran James Etheredge to the position of group chief executive for North America in a move slated to take effect Sept. 1. He will succeed Julie Sweet, who will take the helm at Accenture as CEO, the professional services firm said Thursday.

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has landed a two-year, $191M contract modification to continue producing a command and control communications system for the U.S. Air Force's nuclear-armed bomber fleet.

Shelby Pierson, a more than two-decade intelligence community veteran, has been appointed by Director of National Intelligence and a 2019 Wash100 winner Dan Coats to the newly created role of IC election threats executive.