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BAE Systems has received a $19M contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to design a wargaming center prototype that will incorporate artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics, modeling and simulation processes.

General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has won a potential three-year, $201M task order from the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide DevOps support services to help develop, customize and improve applications across the VA enterprise using Microsoft Dynamics 365 software, G2Xchange Health reported Wednesday.

Bill Weber, a more than three-decade national security and technology industry leader, has joined the board of directors of Arlington, Va.-based government services contractor Buchanan & Edwards.

HawkEye 360, a Herndon, Va.-based radio frequency data analytics company, has appointed Terry McAuliffe, former governor of Virginia, and Chris Inglis, former deputy director of the National Security Agency, to the board of advisers.

The Air Force Research Laboratory has issued a broad agency announcement to seek white papers on artificial intelligence, machine learning and analytics for an embedded deep learning research program aimed at integrating autonomous systems into U.S. Air Force platforms.

Tetra Tech has received a $117M initial task order to help the Department of Defense track the progress of various security cooperation programs through data analytics. The company said Monday it will work with the Defense Security Cooperation Agency and DoD Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy in program evaluation efforts.

Steve Spano, regional vice president for public sector at Tableau, has said there are three misconceptions surrounding data analytics that government agencies should address and break down to leverage data as a strategic asset. One of the myths Spano debunked is that data reporting is hard. Spano wrote that agencies should shift from spreadsheet-centric reporting towards adopting an analytics platform that could enable them to analyze data from disparate sources.

A consortium of investors led by Toronto-based private investment firm Northern Private Capital has closed its acquisition of MDA from Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) for approximately $765M.

CGI (NYSE: GIB) has agreed to acquire Reston, Va.-based information technology and management consulting firm TeraThink for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its enterprise application services for federal government clients. The transaction is expected to be finalized by the end of March and will allow CGI Federal to build up its consulting capabilities and incorporate TeraThink’s data analytics, application development and agile enablement capabilities into its IT offerings portfolio, CGI said Wednesday.

Tetra Tech (Nasdaq: TTEK) has purchased Segue Technologies, an Arlington, Va.-based information technology management consulting firm, for an undisclosed sum.