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SOS International has purchased Tampa, Fla.-based communications and information technology support company Vykin for an undisclosed sum in a move to grow IT and intelligence offerings for the defense sector. SOSi said Wednesday the deal gives the Reston, Va.-based company a spot on the Defense Intelligence Agency's $6B Enhanced Solutions for the IT Enterprise contract and on a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency procurement vehicle for agile and cloud development services.

The Department of Justice has awarded AT&T (NYSE: T) a potential 13-year, $527M contract under the $50B Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions vehicle for information technology and telecommunications services.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has secured unconditional approval from the European Commission for its proposed acquisition of Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) for $34B cash, nearly two months after the U.S. Department of Justice cleared the transaction. The commission said Thursday the merger, which both companies first announced in October 2018, would not put market competition at risk.

John Walsh, a more than 20-year industry veteran, has been named chief technology officer and chief information officer at ASRC Federal.

CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has received a potential seven-year, $880M task order from the U.S. Army to provide engineering and information technology support services for the military branch’s Product Lead Reserve Component Automation System-Force Management System.

Deborah Golden, a principal with Deloitte & Touche, has been named head of the U.S. cyber practice within the company’s risk and financial advisory business.

Last week, we outlined some of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) challenges to their upcoming IT modernization project; today we’d like to suggest some steps that will help ease CBP’s transition to a secure hybrid cloud services model. While CBP has a requirement for secure cloud adoption—and implementing this strategy will help the agency reduce costs while gaining unprecedented agility and flexibility—any shift to a new IT architecture is difficult.

ASRC Federal NetCentric has secured a potential five-year, $100M contract to provide service transition support for global mission critical systems being used by the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs. The company said Tuesday its NetCentric subsidiary will help the bureau’s Office of Consular Systems and Technology manage the software …

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received a one-year, $94M contract modification to provide information management and technology support to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The award extends the company’s services that started in 2018 under a $64.5M initial contract. Work under the modification will take place in Vicksburg, Miss., through …

Harish Nanda, a more than 25-year information technology industry veteran, has joined health IT systems provider CNSI as chief technology officer. He will oversee CNSI’s tech organization and advance innovation into the firm’s customer platforms, the company said Wednesday. Todd Stottlemyer, CEO of CNSI and a 2019 Wash100 winner, said …