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Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 awardee, highlights in a new report four primary messages from Pentagon acquisition chief Ellen Lord at a press briefing Friday, including the launch of the Department of Defense's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program in January.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured an $831M contract modification from the U.S. Navy to deliver F-35 aircraft with conventional takeoff-and-landing capability and related red gear to the Australian government.

M1 Support Services has received a one-year, $101.9M contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to perform flight line and backshop maintenance work at Nellis AF Base in Nevada.

Andrew Adams, a 31-year veteran of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has been appointed to lead the company's Future Vertical Lift campaign under the rotary and mission systems business, effective Nov. 18.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a four-year, $184.6M contract modification to set up a capability for repairing systems of lot 11 F-35 low-rate initial production units for U.S. military and non-Department of Defense entities.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $25M initial contract to develop a digital system for fighter pilots to defend against jamming and spoofing threats as part of the F-35 Block 4 modernization effort.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and the Department of Defense have finalized a $34B contract for the company to produce and deliver 478 F-35 Lightning II fighter jets for lots 12 through 14 in support of U.S. service branches, allies and foreign military sales clients.

A new McAleese & Associates report says Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) saw its year-to-date backlog rise 22 percent to $65B in the third quarter of 2019 and posted $8.5B in Q3 sales, reflecting a 5 percent increase from the same period last year.

Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) aeronautics business has received a potential $7B contract modification from the U.S. Navy to produce and deliver 114 lot 13 F-35 fighter jets to domestic and foreign military sales clients.

A report by consulting firm McAleese & Associates says Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) expects a potential $35B block buy contract to be awarded in the fourth quarter of 2019 for lots 12 through 14 of the F-35 fighter jet.