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The Cyberspace Solarium Commission has released a white paper that presents a five-pillar strategy to establish trusted supply chains for critical information and communications technologies. The strategy calls for the U.S. to identify key technologies and equipment through public-private partnerships and government assessments; ensure minimum viable manufacturing capacity; protect supply chain from compromise through information sharing, product testing and better intelligence; stimulate a domestic market via targeted infrastructure investment; and ensure global competitiveness.

President Donald Trump on Thursday released a national strategy that outlines ways how the U.S. can protect its competitive edge in artificial intelligence, communication and networking technologies, quantum information science, space, military, energy, semiconductors and other fields.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has entered into a public-private partnership with the Red River Army Depot to support the U.S. Army’s Multiple Launch Rocket System fleet expansion program and will expand its operations into the TexAmericas Center in Texas in support of that partnership.

AstraZeneca and the Department of Health and Human Services have signed a potential $1.2B public-private partnership agreement to further develop a recombinant adenovirus vaccine as potential treatment for the novel coronavirus.

Haywood Talcove, CEO, Government, LexisNexis Risk Solutions and LexisNexis Special Services, wrote in an opinion piece published Friday that the federal government should collaborate with industry to protect stimulus funds from fraudsters as it works to provide economic relief to U.S. businesses and families during the COVID-19 pandemic as part of the $2T Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act.

The National Institutes of Health and three other U.S. health agencies have teamed up with the Foundation for the NIH, European Medicines Agency and 16 biopharmaceutical companies to speed up the development of vaccines and treatments for COVID-19. The Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines partnership will work to streamline clinical trials, coordinate regulatory processes and use assets to accelerate response to the coronavirus pandemic and other future health emergencies, NIH said Friday.

The U.S. Air Force and Scaled Agile have formed a public-private partnership to provide recommendations on how to implement the Scale Agile Framework in a DevSecOps context in compliance with the Department of Defense’s Enterprise DevSecOps initiative.

The Small Business Administration has partnered with Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to help SBA distribute approximately $350B worth of loans to small companies as part of the Paycheck Protection Program, CNN reported Tuesday.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected a Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) subsidiary to be DARPA's commercial partner on a mission to demonstrate systems to assemble, update, repair, inspect and relocate customer satellites in orbit.

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has notified the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of its intent to end its work on a DARPA program to develop an unmanned reusable launch vehicle that can be used to send small satellites into low-Earth orbit, Spaceflight Now reported Wednesday.