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Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said the company is committed to supporting the Department of Defense’s efforts to strengthen national security, Reuters reported Sunday.

Lockheed Martin’s aeronautics segment (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $153.4M modification to a contract with the U.S. Navy for F-35 aircraft training and production support services.

UNCOMN, a technology consulting firm based in Norfolk, Va., has landed a five-year, $175.7M contract to perform data, enterprise architecture and information technology engineering services for the the U.S. Transportation Command, the Air Mobility Command and the Surface Deployment and Distribution Center.

Dan Deans, former senior vice president for corporate development at Millennium Engineering and Integration, has been promoted to executive vice president and chief operating officer as part of the company’s reorganization effort.

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) received a potential five-year, $39M contract to provide radio frequency monitoring services to support commercial and military satellites that deploy bandwidth leased by the U.S. government.

A team comprised of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), Parsons (NYSE: PSN) and Centerra Group has secured a potential 10-year, $4B contract to perform site services at the Department of Energy’s Hanford facility.

Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, said Senate and House lawmakers have reached an agreement on a defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2020, Inside Defense reported Saturday.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a potential $188.9M contract modification from the U.S. Navy to deliver six full-rate production gallium nitride systems and related travel assistance to program executive officer land systems.

E3/Sentinel has purchased Operational Intelligence for an undisclosed sum in an effort to expand its analytics, technical and digital capabilities. “The acquisition of Operational Intelligence immediately strengthens our mission and domain expertise across many of our National Security customers and brings an enduring new set of capabilities to our Mission Strategy and Analytics and Engineering and Technical Services for all our clients,” Andy Maner, CEO of E3/Sentinel, said in a statement published Friday.

Leidos Books Potential $1B FAA Flight Service Modernization Contract; Jim Moos Quoted Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has landed a potential 15-year, $1 billion contract to update the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) digital flight briefing service with aeronautical and weather data as well as flight planning support features.  The Future Flight Services …