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Whiting-Turner Contracting has won a potential five-year, $161.2M contract covering five projects to replace hurricane-damaged facilities at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina. The company will build a 23K-square-foot security building and a 15K-square-foot headquarters squadron facility under the first project of the Hurricane Florence recovery package, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has been awarded a $95M contract modification to help the U.S. Air Force integrate and update a guidance kit designed to transform unguided bombs into guided weapons.

BAE Systems' ship repair business in San Diego has won a potential $117.8M U.S. Navy contract to help the Chief of Naval Operations prepare for a scheduled depot maintenance of the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Preble.

The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division has asked industry for proposals to organize and run a consortium that will carry out individual and collaborative prototype projects related to maritime sustainment technology concepts through its members.

BAE Systems has received a $19M contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to design a wargaming center prototype that will incorporate artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics, modeling and simulation processes.

Hungary will procure air defense systems from the U.S. under an estimated $1B deal that involves foreign military and direct commercial sales as the European country aims to modernize its Soviet-era arsenal. The FMS portion of the agreement is for 60 Raytheon Technologies-built (NYSE: RTX) Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile-Extended Range systems and support services worth $230M.

A U.S. official said a rule that prohibits U.S. government agencies from procuring goods and services from contractors that use telecommunications equipment, cameras and other products from five China-based companies took effect Thursday, Aug. 13, Reuters reported.

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory is looking for potential sources of research and development services to support the Air Force’s efforts to deploy a hypersonic air-breathing demonstrator weapon.

Alion Science and Technology has secured a potential five-year, $896M task order to provide the U.S. Navy with an integrated program that will deliver a multidomain live, virtual and constructive training platform across the service’s multiple locations.

Jacobs (NYSE: J) will deploy Raman spectroscopy technology to provide safer identification of radioactive contamination and hazardous substances in waste stores and nuclear facilities undergoing decommissioning, the company announced Tuesday.