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Granicus, a cloud-based citizen engagement technology and services provider headquartered in Denver, has received a joint investment from Harvest Partners and Vista Equity Partners. 

Nasdaq will move to pull out shares of four Chinese companies from the stock exchange's indexes on Dec. 21 to comply with the White House's security investment executive order, Reuters reported Saturday.

Boston-based enterprise artificial intelligence company DataRobot has received an investment from and expanded its partnership with cloud-based data warehousing company Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) to advance product integration and go-to-market initiatives to deliver improved user experience and help customers derive insights from data using AI. DataRobot said Wednesday it also secured strategic investments from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) and Salesforce’s (NYSE: CRM) venture arm.

FireEye (Nasdaq: FEYE) announced that it will receive a strategic investment worth $400M from investment firm Blackstone and venture capital firm ClearSky. FireEye will use the proceeds from the Blackstone Tactical Opportunities-led investment to build up its managed services, platform and cloud portfolio and fund strategic growth initiatives, including its acquisition of cybersecurity company Respond Software. 

A new Mitre study has recommended four measures the U.S. government should take to help maintain the competitive edge of the U.S. commercial geospatial intelligence industry and one of those is consolidating and sharing commercial GEOINT needs with the private sector.

The Federal Communications Commission has cleared the sale of satellite company OneWeb to the U.K. government and Bharti Global, SpaceNews reported Wednesday.

Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, told Defense News in an interview published Monday that she believes the company will be able to deliver on defense programs such as MQ-25 and T-X given its investments in digital engineering and advanced manufacturing processes.

Alain Bellemare, an aerospace industry veteran, has been appointed an operating executive within the global aerospace, defense and government services group at The Carlyle Group (Nasdaq: CG).

Andy Green, president of the technical solutions group at Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and a 2020 Wash100 winner, said HII's equity investment in autonomous technology developer Sea Machines Robotics offers an opportunity for the miltary shipbuilder to help the U.S. Navy explore the potential of unmanned platforms.

Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) has received approval from the Federal Communications Commission for a project to field and operate a constellation of more than 3K satellites in low-Earth orbit to provide broadband service.