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Stu Shea: Northrop IT, Perspecta Acquisitions Complement Peraton’s National Security Vision
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Stu Shea: Northrop IT, Perspecta Acquisitions Complement Peraton’s National Security Vision

Stu Shea, president, CEO and board chairman of Peraton and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said the acquisitions of Northrop Grumman’s (NYSE: NOC) federal information technology and mission support business and Perspecta were the driving forces behind Peraton’s transformation into a next-generation national security company that supports federal clients across the cyber, health, border, election
Dave West Named Avantus Federal SVP of Corporate Development, Strategy
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Dave West Named Avantus Federal SVP of Corporate Development, Strategy

Dave West, formerly an executive at ECS, has been appointed senior vice president of corporate development and strategy at McLean, Virginia-based consulting and information technology services provider Avantus Federal. He will be responsible for driving mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and strategic efforts in his new position at Avantus, the company said Monday. West played a
Army CIO Raj Iyer Explores Digital Transformation During GovCon Wire’s Army: IT Management and Transformation Forum
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Army CIO Raj Iyer Explores Digital Transformation During GovCon Wire’s Army: IT Management and Transformation Forum

Dr. Raj G. Iyer, chief information officer of the U.S. Army, discussed innovative initiatives to strengthen the service branch’s warfighting ability and create a wholly integrated and holistic approach to its IT systems and development during his keynote speech at GovCon Wire’s Army: IT Management and Transformation Forum on Thursday. If you missed the Army:
CMMC-AB Chairman Karlton Johnson Featured as Keynote Speaker During Potomac Officers Club’s 2021 CMMC Forum
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CMMC-AB Chairman Karlton Johnson Featured as Keynote Speaker During Potomac Officers Club’s 2021 CMMC Forum

This past Wednesday, Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its 2021 CMMC Forum to provide the government contracting (GovCon) and federal sector’s members his overview and vision of the CMMC Rollout as well as the top priorities for the board and how industry feedback will help to improve the vision behind how the organization develops for the
Moderna Secures $3.3B Army Contract Modification to Supply Additional 200M COVID-19 Vaccine Doses
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Moderna Secures $3.3B Army Contract Modification to Supply Additional 200M COVID-19 Vaccine Doses

Moderna (Nasdaq: MRNA) has secured a $3.3 billion contract modification from the U.S. Army for additional 200 million filled drug production doses of its SARS-CoV-2 mRNA-1273 vaccine, bringing the total confirmed government order to 500 million doses. The Department of Defense said Monday the biotechnology company will conduct production work at its Cambridge, Massachusetts facility
Enlightenment Capital Invests in Edge Network Provider Fenix Group; Dave Peterson Quoted
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Enlightenment Capital Invests in Edge Network Provider Fenix Group; Dave Peterson Quoted

Washington, D.C.-based investment firm Enlightenment Capital has invested in Fenix Group, a Chantilly, Virginia-based provider of battlefield edge networks and integrated systems, to help the latter advance its growth strategy. “This partnership greatly enhances our ability to drive growth through expansion of our facility footprints in multiple states and allows us to refine our engineering
Deltek Makes Washington Post’s 2021 Top Workplaces List; CEO Mike Corkery Quoted
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Deltek Makes Washington Post’s 2021 Top Workplaces List; CEO Mike Corkery Quoted

Deltek has been named for the fifth time to The Washington Post’s annual list of top companies to work for in the Washington, D.C. area. The software company said Monday that it landed the 12th spot in the “large company” category of the Post’s 2021 Top Workplaces list. The publication made the selection based on
Lockheed Awarded $472M Navy Contract Modification for F-35 Weapons System Development
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Lockheed Awarded $472M Navy Contract Modification for F-35 Weapons System Development

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been awarded a $472.5 million contract modification by the U.S. Navy to develop and integrate F-35 aircraft weapons for the British and Italian governments. The company’s aeronautics segment will support the functional review and development test of three weapons systems on the conventional takeoff-and-landing and short takeoff/vertical landing variants of
Kevin Fahey, John Tile Elected to Board of CTC’s EVC Affiliate
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Kevin Fahey, John Tile Elected to Board of CTC’s EVC Affiliate

Defense industry veterans Kevin Fahey and John Tile have joined the board of directors of Enterprise Ventures Corp., a wholly owned affiliate of Concurrent Technologies Corp. Edward Peretin, interim president of EVC, said in a statement published Monday the expertise of Fahey and Tile will complement the existing members of the board as EVC continues
Tech Incubator BMNT Hires Former CISA Official Sabra Horne as Entrepreneur in Residence
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Tech Incubator BMNT Hires Former CISA Official Sabra Horne as Entrepreneur in Residence

Sabra Horne, former chief of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s innovation hub, has been named an entrepreneur in residence at Palo Alto, California-based technology incubator BMNT, FedScoop reported Monday. She will help oversee BMNT’s artificial intelligence-driven InsightAI program that works to analyze data from internal sources such as employee surveys. Horne led the development of
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