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Leidos Books Potential $1B FAA Flight Service Modernization Contract; Jim Moos Quoted Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has landed a potential 15-year, $1 billion contract to update the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) digital flight briefing service with aeronautical and weather data as well as flight planning support features.  The Future Flight Services …

Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO, has said he believes the company's partnerships with multiple cloud providers could support its pursuit of additional contracts in the government market, Fierce Telecom reported Wednesday. "We do expect that through those partnerships that we'll have a thriving government business, both on-premise as we have had as well as in hybrid and cloud offerings," Gelsinger told analysts during a recent earnings call.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 25, 2019 — Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) received provisional authorization at Impact Level 4 to offer a suite of software-as-a-service applications to the Department of Defense, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 14.

Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) filed a federal suit Friday in Washington contesting the fairness of the Department of Defense's move to award a $10B cloud computing contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Bloomberg reported Saturday. DoD faces the legal challenge one month after it selected Microsoft to be its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contractor.

On Tuesday, Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its Unmanned Systems in the Future Fight Forum featuring Maj. Gen. Peter Gersten, special assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs (AF/A5/8) for the U.S. Air Force, as the keynote speaker. In addition, an expert panel featuring Jim Thomson …

Twenty-seven companies have landed spots on a blanket purchase agreement from the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center to provide cloud services to the militay branch's LevelUP cyber factory.

Defense Secretary and 2019 Wash100 awardee Mark Esper has recused himself from a review of the Pentagon’s potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to avoid any issue of a conflict of interest.

McLean, Va.-based information technology services contractor Steampunk has appointed industry leaders Max Licht, Joe Nizhnikov, Brandon Feather and Mike Fischer to lead its federal civilian sector and Salesforce practice.

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) VMware (NYSE: VMW) have partnered to make the latter’s software and services available on the Oracle cloud infrastructure.

The Department of the Treasury plans to make an investment of more than $1.5B in the next 10 years to move its data and systems to the cloud, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday.