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The Department of State announced that it will work to align its IT governance with bureau missions via the IT Executive Council (ITEC), FedScoop reported Friday. The ITEC was created in April 2019. “The goal of that is to bring together all of the collective requirements of the department, so we understand what needs to be done out there,” said the State Department CIO, Stuart McGuigan.

The State Department has submitted notification to Congress stating the former’s intent to approve the United Arab Emirates’ $23.4B request for F-35 Lightning II fighter jets, MQ-9B Reaper unmanned aerial systems and associated munitions.

The State Department has approved a $500M foreign military sale of Standard Missile-2 Block IIIC systems to be built by Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) for installation on Canada's planned fleet of 15 surface combatant ships.

The State Department’s bureau of overseas buildings operations has released a list of 25 companies shortlisted for an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide worldwide architecture and engineering support services.

The State Department has approved Taiwan’s request to buy four General Atomics-built MQ-9B remotely piloted aircraft, related equipment and services under a potential $600M foreign military sales agreement.

The State Department has cleared a potential $175.4M foreign military sale deal covering support services to modernize Romania's fleet of Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) fighter jets.

The State Department has approved a potential $256M sale of light utility helicopters built by Textron’s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary to the government of Guyana to support the country’s national security efforts.

The State Department informed Congress it approved the United Arab Emirates’ request to buy 50 Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) F-35 fighter jets under a potential $10B deal, Reuters reported Friday. The potential foreign military sales deal will move to an informal review by the House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations committees.

The State Department has approved a potential $2.4B sale of Harpoon missile systems and equipment to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U.S. to support the Taiwanese government’s defense modernization efforts.

MetTel has won a potential 13-year, $711M task order to provide wide-area network and data services for the State Department. The task order awarded under the General Services Administration’s Enterprise Infrastructure Services contract for telecommunications support includes the delivery of a fully managed layer 3 Multiprotocol Label Switching network, Internet Protocol Service and Ethernet Transport Service.