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Germany has narrowed its choices for the country’s next helicopters to the Boeing Chinook and Sikorsky King Stallion with the selection lined up to succeed the latter company’s Sea Stallion, Defense News reported Sunday. Lars Hoffman writes Germany’s air force plans to make a selection by the end of 2016, according to the report. The country’s defense ministry released a military aviation strategy […] More

Turner Construction and Santa Clara County in California have agreed to proceed with the Valley Medical Center expansion project under a new contract valued at approximately $466.5 million, Silicon Valley Business Journal reported Friday. Nathan Donato-Weinstein writes the new “change order” has been reached following the county’s decision to drop a case it filed in September 2015 […] More

L-3 Communications’ MAPPS division has received a contract from Romanian state-owned utilities firm Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica to update the emulation platform of the digital control computer simulator at SNN’s Cernavoda nuclear power plant. The DCC emulation platform is based on the L-3 MAPPS-built Orchid Control System and works to support the functions of DCCs, including system switchover, […] More

General Atomics has received a $34 million order to develop and deploy a new software line for the Air Force Special Operations Command’s MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will field the MQ-9 medium-altitude long-endurance tactical lead-off hitter software line under the basic ordering agreement with the U.S. Air Force, the Defense Department […] More

Sotera has received an $11.4 million contract to support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s research and development counter-insurgency operations program. The company will perform work in Virginia and Texas through Jan. 20, 2019, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Research Triangle Park, North Carolina-based Army Contracting Command received one bid for the contract via […] More

L-3 Communications has been awarded a $7.1 million contract modification to produce energy storage technologies for the U.S. Navy’s planned electromagnetic railgun, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Thursday. John Keller writes L-3 will build four containerized battery energy storage and charging systems for the railgun pulsed power system in San Diego and San Leandro, California […] More

ICF International has been awarded a four-year, $15 million contract to provide event management services for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy. ICF will organize DG REGIO events such as the next series of Open Days institutional events in Brussels, where European Union, national, regional and local leaders and fund managers and final […] More

Saab has been awarded a contract to supply and install technology for Croatia to perform surveillance missions along the country’s maritime boundaries. The company will provide its CoastWatch coastal surveillance and border protection system to Croatia in an effort to help border police secure the country from potential intruders or threats, Saab said Wednesday. CoastWatch is designed to […] More

Force 3 has been awarded an $18 million blanket purchase agreement to provide VMware products for the U.S. Census Bureau’s data collection process. The Census Bureau currently explores ways to automate and update its data gathering practices with the use of websites in mobile platforms and diverse languages and an electronic data entry for field workers, […] More

CenturyLink has agreed to offer supplier services for an SAP private cloud hosting platform under a global premium supplier partnership agreement between the two companies. Gary Gauba, president of CenturyLink unit Cognilytics, said Wednesday the company seeks to help customers migrate their business applications to cloud infrastructure through the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service. CenturyLink noted it aims to […] More

NCI has been awarded a $9 million contract with CDO Technologies to extend the company’s information technology support for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory site in Rome, New York. NCI will work to engineer communications and computer core services, develop applications and test the cyber research network under the contract, the company said Wednesday. The contract […] More

Orbital ATK has received a $14 million contract from Lockheed Martin to build alternative warheads for the U.S. Army’s Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System. Orbital ATK recently tested the warheads with lethality enhanced ordnance technology to Army standards for area effects and the design met the GMLRS requirements, Orbital ATK said Wednesday. “We are very […] More