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Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has selected a building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to serve as the assembly and testing site for its OmegA rocket.

WMR-532, a joint venture between Woolpert and Optimal GEO, has won a $49.9M contract to provide the U.S. Army with operations, maintenance and technical support services. The Army Corps of Engineers received three bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via an online-based solicitation, the Department of Defense said Friday.

The First Responder Network Authority detailed a five-year plan to advance a nationwide public safety broadband system with regard to the network core, capacity and coverage, situational awareness, information exchange security, voice communications and user experience, Government Technology reported Friday.

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has secured a potential four-year, $367.2M contract from the U.S. Navy to update a radar-guided missile defense system and related hardware for domestic and foreign military customers.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has won a potential $60M cost reimbursement contract from the U.S. Air Force to design, verify, fabricate and test a prototype neural inference processor. The Air Force Research Laboratory received two offers for the project via a competitive acquisition process.

Sylvester Cotton, a more than two-decade veteran of the U.S. Army and government contracting industry, has been appointed vice president of growth for Calibre Systems’ defense market. He will oversee digital transformation and management consulting offerings in his new position, Calibre said Friday.

The General Services Administration has added Whitespace Innovations Inc. and Engaging E-Learning Solutions as awardees on a potential $3.45B governmentwide contract vehicle for human capital and training services, GSA said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice.

Todd Probert, vice president for Raytheon’s (NYSE: RTN) intelligence, information and services business, said the U.S. military should focus first on data management and talent recruitment efforts before leveraging the predictive and analytic capabilities of artificial intelligence, C4ISRNET reported Friday.

The Defense Information Systems Agency has released a blanket provisional authorization to allow service components and mission partners at the Pentagon to host data at impact level 2 on cloud platforms certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.

A U.S. Air Force program office has kicked off the solicitation phase for a follow-on program seeking rocket platforms designed to carry more than 400 pounds of payload.