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Ten companies will compete for architectural and engineering task orders under a potential five-year, $209M contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. USACE received 28 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.

Two companies and one joint venture have won spots on a five-year, $240M contract to support the Naval Facilities Engineering Command in environmental remediation projects.

U.K.-based ejection seat manufacturing company Martin-Baker has secured a five-year, $150M contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide replenishment spares for the T-6 and T-38 trainer aircraft platforms.

Vice Adm. Jon Hill, director of the Missile Defense Agency, said MDA has decided to delay the defensive hypersonic missile design effort to focus on near-term options, Defense News reported Tuesday.

Fisher Industries has received a potential $289.5M contract to build an additional 17 miles of border wall infrastructure for the U.S. Border Patrol Laredo Sector's area of responsibility in Webb County, Texas.

Andy Green, president of the technical solutions group at Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and a 2020 Wash100 winner, said HII's equity investment in autonomous technology developer Sea Machines Robotics offers an opportunity for the miltary shipbuilder to help the U.S. Navy explore the potential of unmanned platforms.

Bill Downer, vice president of national programs for Seagate Government Solutions, has released his second article as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Monday after exploring the impact or lack of impact CMMC will have on supply chains and data hygiene. Click here to become a GovCon Expert.

CertiPath has appointed Jack Johnson, Jr. as advisor to CertiPath’s Board of Directors, effective immediately, bringing more than 30 years of industry experience to the company, CertiPath reported on Tuesday.  

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $181.7M contract modification to provide 39 sonar systems that will be integrated into MH-60R Seahawk maritime helicopters for the U.S. Navy and the governments of India and Denmark.

The U.S. Marine Corps is working with the U.S. Army to procure and deploy by fiscal year 2022 a lightweight rocket system that will increase the Marines’ lethality and allow them to fire shots from an enclosed position.