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Two companies have won contracts worth a combined $105.4M to supply medium-sized body armor inserts to the U.S. Army and Air Force. The Defense Logistics Agency received three bids for both firm-fixed-price contracts and will pay for orders using fiscal 2019 defense working capital funds, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

The full Senate is expected next week to confirm Mark Esper, secretary of the U.S. Army and a 2019 Wash100 winner, as the next secretary of the Department of Defense after the upper chamber’s Armed Services Committee approved by a voice vote his nomination Thursday, Reuters reported.

The U.S. Army will launch a contracting process to identify up to three companies that can help manage the service branch’s information technology systems via other transaction agreements, Federal News Network reported Wednesday.

BAE Systems has received a potential $45M contract from the U.S. Army to develop a prototype of the Extended Range Cannon Artillery designed to increase the rate and range of fire on M109A7 self-propelled howitzers.

Saab has received a potential $445M contract to supply ammunition for a disposable weapon system and a recoilless rifle to support the U.S. Army, Marine Corps and special forces.

Five companies have secured spots on a potential five-year, $150M firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to help maintain the Mississippi River and modernize its tributary channel.

Yulista Support Services has landed a potential five-year, $226.9M contract to maintain command, control, communications, computers, combat systems, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance flight activity platforms for the U.S. Army.

General Atomics' aeronautical systems business has secured an $80M cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide logistics support services for the U.S. Army's Gray Eagle Block 0 drones.

Leonardo DRS has received a contract from the U.S. Army to integrate and demonstrate an on-board vehicle power technology for a family of medium tactical vehicles with the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system. The Army and MDA plan to test the potential of OBVP technology to deliver electrical energy to THAAD FMTV demonstrators, the company said Friday.

Louis Berger, which is now part of WSP, has won four contracts worth a combined $335M to provide temporary emergency power services to support the Federal Emergency Management Agency.