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Five independent firms and one joint venture have won spots on a potential five-year, $249M from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to design, build, rehabilitate, maintain or repair systems at government facilities.

QinetiQ announced on Wednesday that the company has entered into an agreement to acquire Manufacturing Techniques (MTEQ) on a cash-free, debt-free basis for $105 million to be paid in cash on completion. The transaction will more than double the size of QinetiQ’s U.S. operations.  “The acquisition of MTEQ is a …

BAE Systems has secured a potential six-year, $2.68B contract to manufacture lot 8 through lot 12 of a laser-guided weapon system designed to reach targets with accuracy and minimize the risk of collateral damage.

CGI announced on Tuesday that it acquired Annams Systems Corp., doing business as Sunflower Systems, a provider of asset management software products and services. The merger strengthens CGI’s position serving the needs of commercial entities and federal government agencies, including universities, law enforcement, national laboratories and other organizations.  “CGI’s merger …

The Department of Defense (DoD) and the General Services Administration (GSA) awarded General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) a potential 10-year, $7.6B blanket purchase agreement on Thursday to replace legacy DoD IT office applications with a standard cloud-based platform across the U.S. military.  GDIT secured the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS) …

Ellen Lord, defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment and a 2019 Wash100 winner, said the Department of Defense sees “no major concerns” with the proposed merger of Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), Defense One reported Monday.

The Washington Headquarters Services has awarded a four-year, $100M contract to Signature Renovations for construction services at the Pentagon building in Arlington, Va., and surrounding reservation area. The company will perform design-build and bid-build work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Department of Defense said Friday.

Todd Probert, vice president for Raytheon’s (NYSE: RTN) intelligence, information and services business, said the U.S. military should focus first on data management and talent recruitment efforts before leveraging the predictive and analytic capabilities of artificial intelligence, C4ISRNET reported Friday.

David Norquist, comptroller at the Department of Defense and a 2019 Wash100 winner, has received Senate confirmation and been sworn in as the 34th deputy DoD secretary.

The Department of Defense is expected to award in August the potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) or Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), Bloomberg reported Thursday.