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The U.S. Navy has awarded United Technologies Corp.'s (NYSE: UTX) Pratt & Whitney subsidiary a $455.5M contract modification to provide lot 14 aircraft propulsion systems to non-Department of Defense participants of the F-35 program.

Aerospace Corp. has appointed retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Paul Selva, Department of Defense veteran Kathleen Hicks and former NASA official Dava Newman to the nonprofit company’s board of trustees.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a potential $251.5M contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide three lot 4 low-rate initial production MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft.

The U.S. Army has asked information on potential vendors that can provide personnel, facilities and technical skills to support testing of hypersonic vehicles. A request for information notice stated the Army plans to award a four-year, cost-type contract worth under $100M for the Hypersonic Test Engineering, Mission Planning and Systems program by June 2020.

President Donald Trump on Friday signed into law the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, which authorizes the creation of the “Space Force” as the sixth military branch.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential $1B contract modification that will definitize all three phases of the U.S. Air Force's F-16 radar modernization program.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has received provisional authorization from the Department of Defense to allow its Azure cloud infrastructure-as-a-service offering to host secret classified data for 90 days, Nextgov reported Thursday.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded 20 companies positions on a potential 10-year, $13.4B contract vehicle for information technology support platforms and services.

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential 13-year, $611.5M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide the U.S. Air Force with command and control switching systems.

Palantir USG has received a potential four-year, $110.8M other transaction agreement from the U.S. Army. Bloomberg reported the company will offer software to link supply chains, human resources and other operations systems of the service branch into a single dashboard through the OTA.