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The U.S. Marine Corps is working with the U.S. Army to procure and deploy by fiscal year 2022 a lightweight rocket system that will increase the Marines’ lethality and allow them to fire shots from an enclosed position.

The technical solutions division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has combined its mission driven innovation solutions and fleet support groups to create the defense and federal solutions group as part of a realignment to achieve efficiencies in its support functions and better serve customers.

Counter Threat Solutions (CTS) has promoted Mark Beran, a media and communications expert, as program manager to supervise the company’s intelligence community contracts and personnel, CTS reported Monday. 

Nicholas Veasey, formerly vice president of investor relations at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), has been named chief financial officer of Fairfax, Va.-based aviation services provider MAG Aerospace.

The Government Accountability Office has dismissed three protests of the U.S. Navy’s award of the $7.7B Next Generation Enterprise Network Recompete contract for network services to Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), Nextgov reported Thursday.

Craig Janus, a 30-year information technology and telecommunications industry veteran, has been named senior vice president of the national security group at McLean, Va.-based government services contractor Preferred Systems Solutions.

SparkCognition, an Austin, Texas-based artificial intelligence company, has formed a wholly owned AI subsidiary focused on government and national defense. SparkCognition Government Systems will deliver AI-based systems to government agencies to help them address national security needs and improve operations through data analysis, application of prescriptive and predictive analytics, autonomy technology deployment and use of natural language processing to facilitate unstructured data processing.

Maj. Gen. Daniel Yoo, head of Marine Corps (USMC) Special Operations Command, and Lt. Gen. James Slife recently discussed the innovative ways each service branch will  experiment with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance warfare operations. 

Duncan Greene, former vice president and general manager of the space intelligence business at BAE Systems Inc., has been appointed president of Akima's mission systems, engineering and technology group.

Tony Crescenzo, an information technology industry leader, has joined Reston, Va.-based systems integrator Intelligent Waves as president. Intelligent Waves CEO Jared Shepard said in a statement published Thursday Crescenzo’s IT acumen and experience as a military veteran will help the company advance growth initiatives and meet clients’ missions.