The State Department has approved potential sales of Raytheon Technologies-built (NYSE: RTX) MK 54 all-up round lightweight torpedoes worth $163.3M combined to the governments of Germany and Belgium.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has landed a potential five-year, $93M contract from the U.S. Army to manufacture multipurpose munitions for destroying targets such as lightly armored infantry vehicles, petroleum storage systems and parked aircraft.

Sharp Minds has won a potential $473M contract to perform labor services at a U.S. Army facility in Chambersburg, Pa., that focuses on updating air and missile defense and precision fire systems for military personnel.

General Motors’ defense business has received firm-fixed-price contracts worth $222.9M combined to manufacture its infantry squad vehicle offering and facilitate initial deliveries of the platform to the U.S. Army.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has been awarded a $222.5M contract to help the U.S. Space Force operate and maintain a constellation of satellites used to detect ballistic missile launches and nuclear detonations.

The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) a $333.4M contract modification to facilitate the low-rate initial production of three MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial systems for the Australian government.

Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a potential $202.6M contract to help the U.S. Air Force sustain the F-15E aircraft's active electronically scanned array radar.

The Department of Defense has awarded SiO2 Materials Science a potential $143M contract to increase the production of a patented technology designed to store vaccines and treatments for SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

Ernst & Young will continue to help the U.S. Army audit its financial statements under a $93M contract modification.

The Department of Defense has awarded 3M (NYSE: MMM) a $126M contract to increase the company's monthly production of medical-grade masks for COVID-19 response. Lt. Col. Mike Andrews, a DoD spokesman, said in a statement posted Wednesday the company will work to produce 26M N95 masks every month beginning in October.