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The Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to launch a competition for a potential $100M contract to provide infrastructure hosting services in cloud environments run by Amazon Web Services and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT). 

Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) federal arm and a three-time Wash100 awardee, wrote in a blog post published Monday the company will compete to develop, field and operate systems across multiple domains in support of the U.S. Air Force's Advanced Battle Management System through its spot on a potential $950M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. 

Christopher Young, former CEO of computer security software provider McAfee (Nasdaq: MCFE), has joined Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) as executive vice president of business development. He will report directly to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and oversee the technology firm's global BD strategies that include strategic alliances, joint ventures and venture investments.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has appointed nearly 11-year company veteran Heidi Kobylski as general manager of the technology firm's federal civilian group, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Monday.

THIS WEEK’S TOP 10 MOST POPULAR STORIES View Weekly Contract Awards SAIC Wins $737M AFMS3 Contract to Support Modeling, Simulation; Michael LaRouche Quoted Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) has been awarded the potential $737 million U.S. Air Force Modeling and Simulation Support Services (AFMS3) 2.0 contract to implement, integrate and develop modeling and simulation (M&S). …

The U.S. Air Force has awarded an additional 24 spots on a potential $950M contract to develop and operate systems across land, sea, air, cyber, electromagnetic spectrum and cyber domains as part of the Joint All Domain Command and Control program.

Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) has appointed Jon Love, former head of public sector partner development at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), as vice president of strategic growth, responsible for driving company efforts to secure opportunities in the global public sector. “In this role, he is going to lead efforts to help our U.S. Government customers, our closest allies, and ecosystem of industry partners harness commercial innovation in Earth Intelligence create mission force multipliers across our community,” said Tony Frazier, executive VP of global field operations at Maxar and a four-time Wash100 awardee.

Microsoft has launched Azure Space to store space-based data, as well as enable ground-based consumers to expand connectivity. Azure Space will link Azure’s existing cloud platform with new data centers and a network of privately owned satellites to provide high-speed internet across the globe.

THIS WEEK’S TOP 10 MOST POPULAR STORIES View Weekly Contract Awards AECOM Merges Design, Consulting Businesses into Global Organization; Names Lara Poloni as Lead AECOM has integrated its Design and Consulting Services (DCS) businesses into one global organization as part of the company’s phased strategy. The new unit will be led by Lara Poloni, AECOM’s …

The Department of Defense has awarded $197.2M in other transaction agreements to four companies to pursue the development of microelectronics technologies.