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Advanced Concepts and Technologies International, L.L.C. (ACT I) has appointed Catherine Urban as Deputy Chief Financial Officer (DCFO) to support mergers and acquisitions strategy, the company reported on Wednesday.   

Frank St. John, the current executive vice president of Lockheed Martin's Rotary and Mission Systems (RMS) business, was elected by the board to serve as chief operating officer (COO), effective June 15, the company announced on Monday. 

The Government Accountability Office has found that while the Missile Defense Agency improved acquisition procedures in programs like the Ballistic Missile Defense System, it is yet to address its risky practices and aggressive scheduling.

The U.S. Army intends to facilitate a “shoot-off” exercise to determine the capacity of the service’s potential indirect fires protection systems to defeat cruise missiles, unmanned aircraft, rockets and other weapons, Defense News reported Monday.

John Whitley, who performs the duties of director of the office of cost assessment and program evaluation at the Department of Defense, said the office of DoD’s chief management officer is reviewing each of the service branch’s budgets to align them with the National Defense Strategy, DoD News reported Friday.

Raytheon has completed construction of the first radar antenna array for the U.S. Army’s  Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS), the company announced on Friday. The LTAMDS will help the service branch defeat advanced threats, including hypersonic weapons. 

Deputy Defense Secretary and 2020 Wash100 Award winner David Norquist said the Pentagon’s proposed budget of $705.4 billion for fiscal year 2021 seeks to prepare the U.S. armed forces for “high-end” warfare, DoD News reported Monday.

The Department of Defense found $5.7 billion in savings following an internal review of “fourth estate” agencies, Defense News reported Thursday. DoD will redirect the identified funding towards new priorities in support of the National Defense Strategy.

Mark Esper, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, said in a memo that the Pentagon’s $740B budget request for fiscal year 2021 would advance weapons modernization, support service members and strengthen alliances in support of the “irreversible implementation of the National Defense Strategy,” Military Times reported Tuesday.

Russia’s defense ministry said the country has fielded its first hypersonic nuclear-capable missiles, Reuters reported Saturday. Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s defense minister, informed President Vladimir Putin of the deployment of the Avangard system, which has a hypersonic glide vehicle sitting on top of an intercontinental ballistic missile.