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TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 25, 2020 — Brett McMillen, director of U.S. federal at Amazon Web Services, said during Government Matters' Tech Leadership Series: Innovation episode the company has observed agencies applying innovative approaches to analyze and provide data sets for service delivery, ExecutiveBiz reported March 17.

Ceradyne, a 3M subsidiary, has won a potential $111.1M contract to supply the U.S. Army and Air Force with body protection plates widely used in tactical vests of military personnel.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a six-year, $932.8M contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to manufacture ballistic missile interceptors for the U.S. government and Saudi Arabia to fullfill a foreign military sales case requirement.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) emerged as the final contender for the U.S. Army’s Precision Strike Missile prototyping competition, Jane’s 360 reported Tuesday. The PrSM program seeks to develop a precision-strike, surface-to-surface guided missile to replace the Army Tactical Missile System and that can be fired from the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System and M270A1 Multiple Launch Rocket System to neutralize targets at ranges of up to 499 kilometers.

CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has won a potential $199.5M contract to provide satellite communications systems and services to U.S. Navy's joint warfighting special operations around the world.

Stephanie Turner, a 25-year human resources professional and former director of corporate diversity and inclusion at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has been named vice president of inclusion, diversity and social innovation at Mitre.

Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s School of Business, has presented his key takeaways from a presentation by Katie Arrington, chief information security officer at the Department of Defense and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, about DoD’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification. McGinn noted that CMMC not only applies to DoD, but also to companies and individuals.

Joshua Myers, former director of CMS capture at NewWave Telecom & Technologies, has joined Guidehouse as director of the public health division, FedHealth T reported Tuesday.

The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences has landed a potential five-year, $900M contract to continue managing a contracting program that allows commercial and academic organizations to develop sustainment tools and processes for the Department of Defense. It marks the fourth cooperative agreement NCMS received to serve as DoD's managing partner for the  Commercial Technologies for Maintenance Activities program,

Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) has asked the court to deny the Department of Defense’s request to reassess its decision to award the potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), GeekWire reported Tuesday. Amazon requests the court to direct DoD to review the proposals with respect to all of the concerns it has raised in its protest, according to the company’s motion opposing the Pentagon review unsealed Tuesday.