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The U.S. Air Force plans to issue in November a draft statement of objectives and other documents for a potential 15-year, $25B contract for the acquisition and sustainment of training and simulation systems, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday.

Cubic’s (NYSE:CUB) global defense segment has teamed up with Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Carley to compete for the U.S. Navy’s potential $93M contract to design, develop, test and deliver products in support of the service’s Fiscal Year 2021 Ready Relevant Learning Content Conversion program.

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.

Jenny Berarducci, regional vice president of customer success at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has said a cloud-based tool provides government agencies the capability to improve the customer experience and earn the public’s trust, which is key to any mission. Berarducci wrote about the need for agencies to implement a flexible technology that could enable them to meet current and future needs.

Katie Arrington, chief information security officer for acquisition at the Department of Defense and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, told Government Matters in an interview posted Sunday about the creation of standards that third-party assessment organizations will use to evaluate and certify contractors under DoD's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program.

Shad Imam, director of solution engineering for federal region at MuleSoft, told Rob Stein, senior vice president for North America public sector at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), in an interview how government agencies can accelerate the delivery of services and improved experiences to citizens using application programming interfaces.

Ellen Lord, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, said the Department of Defense will conduct a public hearing on the new cybersecurity standards in late April or early May with plans to start the first Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification training course for auditors in April, National Defense reported Wednesday. The Potomac Officers Club will host its CMMC Forum 2020 on April 2. Click here to register for the event.

Alion Science and Technology has received a potential 48-month, $248M contract from the U.S. Navy to build and integrate live, virtual and constructive training systems and architecture for use in advanced warfighter training.

The General Services Administration issued a draft request for proposals for a potential 10-year, multiple-award contract to research, build and sustain manned and unmanned aircraft, ground, space and maritime vehicles, weapons systems and robotics for the Department of Defense, Bloomberg Government reported Friday.

TechTrans International will provide non-personal services intended to help the U.S. Army address training requirements under a potential $231.3M contract.