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James Geurts, Assistant Secretary for Research, Development, and Acquisition with the U.S. Navy and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, recently addressed the challenges the U.S. Navy has faced deploying unmanned systems. He noted that the service branch has encountered obstacles to obtain and use the systems effectively on a global scale. 

Leidos has been awarded a four-year, approximate $292 million prime contract by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to design and develop a system that will provide real-time access to weather, aeronautical, and National Airspace System (NAS) information. 

The U.S. Army has started the development of a mobile application that aims to help leaders manage daily tasks and connect with squad members. The team will collaborate with the Army Futures Command to study various approaches for counseling, sponsorship and training management.

Voyager Space Holdings has announced its acquisition of Pioneer Astronautics, a hands-on research and development company, in a cash and stock transaction, Voyager reported on Monday. 

MITRE has restructured its research and development (R&D) capabilities and has created MITRE Labs to further extend its impact across federally funded R&D centers and in collaboration with academia and industry, the company reported on Tuesday. 

The Department of Defense (DoD) has extended its potential  $2.7 billion contract with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to operate the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) for an additional term of five years, the University reported on Tuesday.

NASA has announced its efforts to combat COVID-19, utilizing efforts across the nation to augment the national response, the administration reported on Friday.

Battelle has announced that its team of scientists, doctors and researchers in collaboration with The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center has reported that a person with a clinically complete spinal cord injury (SCI) can use a brain-computer interface (BCI) to simultaneously reanimate motor function and sense of touch by using residual touch signaling from the subject’s hand, the company released on Friday. 

Jacobs has collaborated with Principal Investigator Dr. David Hanigan at the University of Nevada, Reno, to participate in a research and development grant from the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) for Rapid Site Profiling of Organofluorine: Quantification of PFASs by Combustion Gas Analysis, the company announced on Thursday.

Unisys Corporation has enhanced automation to its ClearPath Forward ePortal and ClearPath Application Integration Services software solutions to boost the company’s ability to further the digital transformation of business and IT infrastructure, Unisys announced on Thursday.