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United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) has promoted 14-year company veteran Christopher Calio as president of UTC's Pratt & Whitney subsidiary in a move that will take effect in early 2020. He will succeed Robert Leduc, who is due to retire from the company next year after a four-decade career, UTC said Tuesday.

John Long, who previously held a nearly 13-year career at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been appointed director of business development at LMI, G2Exchange ETC reported Tuesday.

Four companies and one university research organization have won spots on a potential six-year, $100M other transaction agreement from the U.S. Navy to develop expeditionary warfare technology protoypes for the Naval Sea Systems Command.

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has won a potential three-year, $63M contract to develop, engineer and integrate a training system based on synthetic signature generation technology for the U.S. Navy. The company will also help the service brancg test, implement and maintain the SSG trainer as part of the cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.

Bechtel has been awarded a 44-month, $383M contract to design, construct, test and commission a second mobile launcher at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. NASA said Wednesday it will use the ML2 to assemble, process and launch the Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft on missions moon and Mars. The platform will be built to support KSC's exploration ground systems.

Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has secured a potential five-year, $91.3M contract to engineer and provide other support services for the U.S. Army's H-60 Black Hawk fleet.

Dana Deasy, chief information officer at the Department of Defense and a 2019 Wash100 winner, said DoD expects to award the potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement contract by the end of August, National Defense reported Tuesday.

Jim Colson, a two-decade IBM (NYSE: IBM) veteran, has joined Cubic (NYSE: CUB) as vice president and chief technology officer.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 25, 2019 — ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) executives Randy James and John Paczkowski believe there must be a more open flow of information between the government and the private sector in order to more effectively defend national interests, ExecutiveBiz reported June 11.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 25, 2019 — Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) will accept applications through Aug. 12 for a scholarship program designed to prepare military veterans for cybersecurity careers amid the increased demand for professionals in that field, ExecutiveBiz reported June 14.