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CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has received a potential five-year, $413M contract to provide support services for a ground-based technology platform the U.S. Army uses to process signals intelligence and fused intelligence data in real time. The company said Monday it will help the Army engineer SIGINT and communications systems of the military …

Shareholders at Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) cleared the company’s plan for U.S. domestication at a special meeting held Friday in Westminster, Colo. The company said Friday holders of approximately 76 percent of outstanding and issued shares in Maxar voted in the meeting with 99.8 percent approving the firm’s U.S. incorporation. …

Amazon’s decision to establish new headquarters in Northern Virginia and New York is expected to help create up to 37,850 jobs by 2034, the Washington Business Journal reports. Over the next two years alone, the tech giant plans to to hire 1,200 people in the Greater Washington area to work …

Northrop Grumman‘s (NYSE: NOC) innovation systems business, formerly Orbital ATK, and Space Vector have landed spots under a potential seven-year, $424M contract for suborbital launch services in support of the U.S. Air Force‘s Sounding Rocket Program-4. Efforts under the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-incentive-fee, firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract are intended to help USAF …

The U.S. Navy has selected Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), Cydecor and Whitney, Bradley and Brown to help the military service manage the warfighting, manpower and business transformation initiatives under a potential $69.9M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. All three contractors will primarily support the Navy’s Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance, the Defense Department …

Peraton will continue to provide telemetry, tracking and command services to NASA’s Space Communications Network Services program under a one-year, $243M contract extension. The company said Thursday it will help the Goddard Space Flight Center plan and engineer the mission integration process  for near-Earth and space communications connectivity. SCNS serves as the …

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) and Engility (NYSE: EGL) will each conduct a shareholder meeting on Jan. 11 to decide on proposals associated with SAIC’s proposed $2.5B purchase of the Chantilly, Va.-based engineering services contractor. Shareholders of record as of Nov. 29 are expected to receive on Dec. 4 the …

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a potential $348.9M contract to provide infrastructure for F-35 developmental laboratories and flight tests. The infrastructure will support the fighter aircraft program’s development, production and sustainment efforts, the Defense Department said Thursday. DoD noted the cost-plus-incentive-fee contract combines purchases from the Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Air Force …

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s updated forecast for contracting opportunities shows that nine potential solicitations totaling between $460M and over $830M could be awarded in fiscal year 2019, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. The nine potential contracts for FY 2019 are: Digital Engineering Foundational Engineering GEOINT Tradecraft Learning Program ITEMS Transport II …

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a potential three-year, $172.1M to manufacture a second batch of Long-Range Anti-Ship Missiles. Lockheed’s missiles and fire control business will build 50 lot 2 LRSMs for the military service at a contractor facility in Orlando, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Pentagon expects the …