Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and Collins Aerospace has landed contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop technology platforms for countering anti-access/area denial threats. DARPA selected the three companies to participate in the first and second phases of the System-of -Systems Enhanced Small Unit program, according to a notice posted Tuesday on the beta SAM website.

Liberty IT Solutions has secured a $380M task order to help the Department of Veterans Affairs develop and manage an application programming interface platform.

The U.S. Air Force has selected six companies to support construction projects on Germany-based military sites under a potential five-year, $425M contract. Contractors will design, build, repair, alter, renovate, maintain or sustain commercial and residential structures under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

Rogers, Lovelock and Fritz will provide architecture and engineering design services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers under a potential $100M contract.

George Batsakis, former defense portfolio lead at Accenture's (NYSE: ACM) federal business, has joined information technology provider 1901 Group as executive vice president and chief strategy officer.

The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded SupplyCore a spot on a potential five-year, $300M contract for maintenance, repair and operations support within U.S. Central Command's area of responsibility.

Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) will continue to help operate and secure a U.S. Army installation in Kuwait under a $134.5M contract modification. The company will base operations support and services at Camp Arifjan  through Sept. 28, 2020, the Department of Defense said Friday.

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has won a potential $727M contract to help the U.S. Air Force and Army migrate information technology applications to cloud infrastructure. SAIC said Thursday it will update 800 mission apps for the two service branches under the USAF-awarded Common Computing Environment contract, or Cloud One.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a 28-month, $70M contract from the Aviation Missile Technology Consortium to help the U.S. Army create an agile software development process for a battle management system.

Collins Aerospace, a business unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), has received an order from the  Federal Aviation Administration to supply a head-up display virtual reality technology for the agency's scientific research efforts.