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Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has agreed to acquire Huntsville, Ala.-based technology services contractor Dynetics for approximately $1.65B in cash to further build up its position in the intelligence, civil and defense markets. "The addition of Dynetics will significantly increase our capabilities for rapid prototyping and agile system integration and production, enhancing our overall offerings and services to customers," said Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos and a 2019 Wash100 winner.

Jennifer Kauffman, a three-decade business development, security and intelligence professional, has joined CyberCore Technologies as vice president of business development, GovCon Wire has learned.

John Zangardi, formerly chief information officer at the Department of Homeland Security, has joined Leidos’ (NYSE: LDOS) civil group as senior vice president of business initiatives and strategic partnerships.

John Gaddi, a more than two-decade finance and accounting professional, has joined Rockville, Md.-based health information technology provider CNSI as senior vice president of finance.

ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) has named three new executives to a new team tasked with expanding the delivery of health care services to U.S. veterans and growing the company’s work with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Executives from Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT), Parsons (NYSE: PSN) and Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) said they believe divestitures of smaller business units resulting from major mergers and acquisitions in the past two years could drive the next wave of M&As in the government contracting market, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday.

Sanjay Parthasarathy, a more than 25-year business development professional, has joined Leidos’ (NYSE: LDOS) defense group as vice president of business development and strategy for logistics and mission support operation.

Four companies have won separate contracts from the Missile Defense Agency to come up with payload design prototypes for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor Program. The Department of Defense said Tuesday Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) each received a $20M firm-fixed-price contract, which includes risk-reduction demonstration for signal-chain processing.

Jim Moos, chief operating officer and deputy president of Leidos’ (NYSE: LDOS) civil group, has been named president of the civil group on an interim basis. He succeeds Angie Heise, who has led the unit since 2016.

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has won a potential five-year, $149.9M contract to design and develop software for the National Institutes of Health's Office of Extramural Research, according to a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday.