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Michael Lewis, former vice president and general manager of Iron Mountain's (NYSE:IRM) government services unit, has joined Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) as VP of strategy and business development. He brings more than three decades of industry experience to his new position and will be responsible for Salesforce's BD efforts in the aerospace, defense and federal systems integration segments.

THIS WEEK’S TOP 10 MOST POPULAR STORIES View Weekly Contract Awards Reps. Adam Smith, Mac Thornberry Announce Bicameral Agreement Over FY 2021 NDAA House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., and Ranking Member Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, issued a joint statement Wednesday saying both chambers of Congress have reached agreement on …

Boston-based enterprise artificial intelligence company DataRobot has received an investment from and expanded its partnership with cloud-based data warehousing company Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) to advance product integration and go-to-market initiatives to deliver improved user experience and help customers derive insights from data using AI. DataRobot said Wednesday it also secured strategic investments from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) and Salesforce’s (NYSE: CRM) venture arm.

Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) has agreed to acquire professional services firm Acumen Solutions for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its platforms and service offerings to help customers advance their digital transformation efforts. Salesforce will integrate Acumen Solutions with its professional services business upon the deal’s closing.

Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) has agreed to purchase Slack Technologies (NYSE: WORK) for approximately $27.7B in a strategy to create a unified technology platform for enterprise collaboration and communication. Marc Benioff, chair and CEO of Salesforce, said the combination seeks to “shape the future of enterprise software and transform the way everyone works in the all-digital, work-from-anywhere world.”

ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) has secured a potential five-year, $49M blanket purchase agreement with an initial $4M task order to help the Food and Drug Administration's enterprise shared service organization modernize and maintain information technology platforms.

Mahir Jameel, a former Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) executive, has been named global chief architect at Herndon, Virginia-based health information technology provider B3 Group. He will also lead B3 Group's Salesforce practice and be responsible for developing its strategy to implement the cloud platform at the Department of Veterans Affairs' Digital Transformation Center, the company said Tuesday.

Pyramid Systems has secured a two-year, $24M contract to help the Department of Housing and Urban Development migrate applications to a cloud computing environment designed for government use.

Antoine Harden, former regional sales director for Exabeam's Department of Defense business, has joined Google’s (Nasdaq: GOOGL) cloud segment as head of public sector health care, life sciences and federally funded research and development center sales.

Scott Woestman, former director of federal sales at software development company Informatica, has joined Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) as regional vice president for sales. He will manage a team of professionals who market Salesforce offerings to the defense sector.