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Aaron Weis, chief information officer for the Department of the US Navy (DON), was presented his first Wash100 Award on Wednesday for leading the guiding principles of the service branch to drive DON’s information technology and cyber readiness goals. Weis assumed his role with the Department of the Navy in Sept. 2019.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been awarded a $709.8M contract modification by Naval Air Systems Command to obtain materials needed for the low-rate initial production of additional F-35 jets for U.S. and foreign military sales customers. The modification funds material purchases for lot 15 through lot 17 aircraft of the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps as well as FMS and non-Department of Defense participants, DoD said Monday.

Four companies have won spots on a potential five-year, $240M contract to perform a range of construction work at the U.S. Marine Corps’ facilities in Camp Lejeune, N.C., and surrounding areas.

Whiting-Turner Contracting has won a potential five-year, $161.2M contract covering five projects to replace hurricane-damaged facilities at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina. The company will build a 23K-square-foot security building and a 15K-square-foot headquarters squadron facility under the first project of the Hurricane Florence recovery package, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

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.