NASA has awarded Masten Space Systems a potential $75.9M contract to provide a vehicle that will carry nine  instruments being built to support the agency's manned lunar exploration goals. The company will use its X-1 lunar lander to deliver payloads designed to facilitate precision landing tests and studies on the Moon's radiation and surface composition, NASA said Thursday.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued contract modifications worth $10B combined to two joint ventures and eight independent firms contractors to design, construct and temporarily repurpose public facilities for health care work.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is soliciting proposals on a series of algorithms, a virtual laboratory testbed and a senor network through a program aimed at coordinating airspace operations to reduce collision among friendly forces across a congested battlefield. DARPA is scheduled to host a webinar for potential proposers on April 21.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a three-year, $167.5M contract to supply long-range anti-ship missile systems to the U.S. Air Force. The company's missiles and fire control systems unit will provide 48 LRASMs along with tooling and test equipment through the sole-source contract, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.

Susan Gordon, former principal deputy director at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, has joined the board of directors at CACI International (NYSE: CACI). She brings three decades of intelligence community experience as the company aims to grow technology and service offerings for the IC sector in the cyber, artificial intelligence and space areas, CACI said Monday.

The U.S. Navy has released a draft solicitation for a contracting opportunity for the development of a medium unmanned underwater vehicle to help the branch locate naval mines and collect oceanographic data,  Inside Defense reported Friday.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has won a potential $512M foreign military sales contract with the U.S. Air Force to produce F-16 Block 70 jets for the Bulgarian government.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a five-year, $404M contract modification for software, engineering and product support work on the U.S. Navy's airborne early warning and command-and-control aircraft platform. The Navy exercised options on a previously awarded contract to procure E-2D Advanced Hawkeye support services and two additional aircraft under the eighth and ninth production lots, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

The U.S. Army has selected DRC Emergency Services, ECC Constructors and Crowdergulf to perform regional debris management work under a $3.5B multiple-award contract.

BAE Systems has received a two-year, $99.3M contract modification to supply the U.S. Navy and Japanese government with canisters designed for a naval missile launcher platform.