Five contractors have secured positions on a $95M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for civil engineering services to Robins Air Force Base in Georgia.

Ricci Mulligan, former acting principal deputy assistant secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs' information and technology office, has joined Grant Thornton as a director within the public sector healthcare practice.

Hughes Network Systems will develop and demonstrate a technology intended to manage satellite communications under a $2.2M contract from the U.S. Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center. The company said Monday it will create the Enterprise Management and Control system prototype with the firm's Flexible Modem Interface to support interoperability between satcom networks.

Merdith Temple, a 37-year veteran of the U.S. Army and a member of Dewberry's board of directors, has been appointed vice chair of the board. He retired from military service with the rank of major general in September 2012 after serving as deputy chief of the Army Corps of Engineers.

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has received a 15-month, $92M bridge contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to continue providing operations, maintenance and repair items. Work under the sole-source contract will take place in Hawaii, Guam and New Jersey, the Department of Defense said Friday.

Five contractors have won spots on a potential five-year, $990M contract to provide design-build services for  construction projects within Naval Facilities Engineering Command's Pacific area of responsibility.

General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and American Ordnance have landed spots on a potential five-year, $133.2M contract to supply the U.S. Army with artillery propellants. The two companies will compete for orders to manufacture 155mm M231 and M232 propelling charges for the Modular Artillery Charge System, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.

Alliant Techsystems Operations, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has received a $109.9M contract from the U.S. Air Force to manufacture additional cockpit-programmable fuzes designed to help warfighters destroy buried targets.

Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has secured a five-year, $49.5M contract to support a Defense Information Systems Agency program that offers web conferencing and instant messaging services to Department of Defense personnel and mission partners.

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $25M contract to help the Defense Logistics Agency sustain supply chain analysis programs and provide engineering support for a variety of spare parts. The firm-fixed-price contract has a one-year base period along with four one-year options, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.