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Maxar Technologies announced on Wednesday that the company will open a new facility in St. Louis, Missouri, to support growth in several U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) programs.

Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Mark Sopp, executive vice president and chief financial officer of KBR’s Government Services business, with his third Wash100 Award. Sopp was also a Wash100 Award recipient in 2015 and 2017.

Rebecca Singhavong, ViON Corporation’s vice president of Finance, has been named to the CFO Leadership Council’s prestigious 2019 Emerging Leaders list, ViON announced on Tuesday. The CFO Leadership Council selects the Emerging Leaders based on their professional accomplishments, demonstrated expertise and leadership/service in the community.

Michael Kratsios, chief technology officer of the United States, deputy assistant to the President on Science and Technology Policy and 2019 Wash100 Award recipient, has been confirmed to speak at the COSM Technology Summit on Oct. 23 - 25th. Click here to register for the summit. 

Boeing announced on Tuesday that the company is investing $20 million into Virgin Galactic, a vertically integrated human spaceflight company to broaden commercial space access and transform global travel technologies.

Maxar Technologies has received a $14 million contract to develop Red Wing, an automated, cloud-based geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) analysis architecture for the Air Force Research Laboratory, Maxar announced on Monday. 

The Professional Services Council (PSC) welcomes the proposed Federal Acquisition Regulation rule to limit civilian agencies’ use of the lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA) source selection process for certain services contracts, PSC announced on Wednesday. 

On Monday, the Professional Services Council (PSC) provided further feedback on the issues and concerns for the contractor community with regard to the Department of Defense’s (DoD) draft Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) framework. 

The Professional Services Council (PSC) announced on Thursday that the Department of Defense’s issuance of long overdue final regulations prohibiting the misuse of lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA) source selection criteria for certain services and IT contracts.

The Professional Services Council (PSC) will be hosting a webinar on Thursday, Sept. 26th at 8:30 a.m. for a discussion regarding  the E-Verify federal contractor rule and how it applies to the federal contractor community, including subcontractors. Other topics to be discussed include: