SNC Manufacturing has been awarded a $102.2 million contract modification by the Defense Logistics Agency to supply combat uniform coats to the U.S. Army and Afghanistan. The Defense Department said Wednesday the modification exercises the fourth option in a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and increases the contract’s potential value to $216.8 million. DLA Troop Support will obligate fiscal …

Janet Kavandi has been elevated from senior vice president to executive VP of Sierra Nevada Corp.'s space systems group. The 25-year NASA veteran will manage the SSG business organization and its programs that include the Dream Chaser, a cargo spacecraft the company is manufacturing under its Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract with the space agency.

THIS WEEK’S TOP 10 MOST POPULAR STORIES AECOM Names New Executives to Leadership Team; Troy Rudd Quoted AECOM has appointed Gaurav Kapoor, current chief accounting officer of the company, as chief financial officer (CFO), Douglas Stotlar as independent chairman of the Board of Directors and Troy Rudd as director of the Board, effective Aug. 15. Bradley …

The U.S. Army has awarded Sierra Nevada Corp. a potential 10-year, $318.9M contract to produce, engineer and sustain handheld devices that are designed to secure tactical communications. Army Contracting Command received one bid for the hybrid contract covering simple key loader support services, the Department of Defense said Monday.

Sierra Nevada Corp. has secured a potential $700M contract from Special Operations Command to manufacture radio frequency countermeasure systems for protecting aircrews from radar and missile threats.

Cobham’s advanced electronic solutions business has unveiled nine members of its board of directors five months after private equity firm Advent International acquired the U.K.-based aerospace and defense technology supplier.

Sierra Nevada Corp. will manufacture two light attack aircraft for the U.S. Air Force under a $128.9M contract that also covers associated support and sparing services.

Starboard Value, a New York-based investment adviser and a shareholder of AECOM (NYSE: ACM), has recommended three independent directors for appointment to AECOM’s board under a governance agreement. AECOM said Friday Peter Feld, a managing member of Starboard, and Robert Card, president of executive advisory services firm The Card Group, will immediately join its board, while Jacqueline Hinman, former chairman, president and CEO of CH2M Hill, will assume duties as a board member on Dec. 16.

Five companies have won spots on NASA’s potential $2.6B Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract, bringing the total number of awardees to 14.

The U.S. Air Force plans to buy up to six light-attack aircraft from Textron (NYSE: TXT) and a Sierra Nevada Corp.-Embraer team for use in training and experimental activities as part of the National Defense Strategy.