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Counter Threat Solutions (CTS) has promoted Mark Beran, a media and communications expert, as program manager to supervise the company’s intelligence community contracts and personnel, CTS reported Monday. 

Ryan Fairchild, a 17-year defense and intelligence industry veteran, has joined Novetta as vice president of enterprise solutions within the company’s information exploitation division.

Rick Dansey, former chief growth officer at TeraThink and a U.S. Navy veteran, has joined T-Rex Solutions as vice president of growth and strategy.

The U.S. Special Operations Command has issued a draft request for proposals for the second iteration of its contracting program seeking contractor support to analyze geospatial intelligence from traditional and nontraditional data sources.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded 27 companies spots on a potential five-year, $950M contract to develop and operate systems across ground, air, maritime, space, electromagnetic spectrum and cyber domains in support of the Joint All Domain Command and Control program.

Alison Paris, who holds 15 years of federal market experience, has been named vice president of talent acquisition at Peraton.

Tony Crescenzo, an information technology industry leader, has joined Reston, Va.-based systems integrator Intelligent Waves as president. Intelligent Waves CEO Jared Shepard said in a statement published Thursday Crescenzo’s IT acumen and experience as a military veteran will help the company advance growth initiatives and meet clients’ missions.

Seventeen companies have won spots on a potential eight-year, $783M contract to provide integrated technology platforms to secure U.S. Air Force bases around the world.

John Johns, a more than two-decade business development professional, has joined Parsons (NYSE: PSN) as vice president account executive of the federal intelligence operating unit within the company’s cyber and intelligence market. He will report to Paul Decker, executive VP and general manager of cyber and intelligence market, and oversee account management and client engagement in support of the U.S. intelligence community, Parsons said Wednesday.