Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Southern University and A&M College have signed an 18-month NASA mentor-protege agreement to collaborate under NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) program. Boeing will provide tactical business and technical support to Southern University to improve its ability to win NASA contracts and subcontracts. 

Chantilly, Va.-based technology services provider Veraxx Engineering has won a potential eight-year, $218M contract to provide systems and tools for the U.S. Army to train special operations personnel in a live, virtual and constructive training environment.

Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Mike Twyman, president of Cubic Mission Solutions (CMS), with his first Wash100 Award on Monday. Executive Mosaic recognized Twyman for driving growth for the company, acquiring Nuvotronics and pushing Cubic’s technical services to help the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).

The State Department has approved a potential $634.7M foreign military sale of aircraft equipment, services and spare parts to support Chile's F-16 fleet modernization program.

Leidos' (NYSE: LDOS) Dynetics subsidiary has secured a potential 10-year, $356M contract to produce and maintain a suite of foreign radar simulators for use by the U.S. Air Force and the Department of Defense in enterprise-wide test efforts.

John Slattery, president and CEO of the commercial aviation business at Embraer, has been appointed to the same dual-role at General Electric’s (NYSE: GE) aviation unit in a move slated to take effect July 13.

Honeywell (NYSE: HON) has created a business unit focused on unmanned aerial systems in a move to expand the company’s urban air mobility technology portfolio.

Dantaya Williams, former vice president of human resources at Pratt & Whitney's commercial engines division, has been named chief HR officer of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX).

Alion Science and Technology has been awarded a 60-month, $39 million U.S. Air Force task order to support the AF Life Cycle Management Center's intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and special operations force directorate, the company annouinced Thursday.

The Defense Logistics Agency has begun to seek information on potential industry sources of equipment and services to meet the U.S. Army’s command, control, computers, communications, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance requirements under a potential 10-year contract with a projected ceiling value of between $2B and over $5B.