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Leonardo DRS has been awarded a five-year, $250M contract to replace the U.S. Army's satellite communications terminals designed for tactical users. The contractor will help the Army replace the terminals that are set for decommissioning in fiscal year 2025, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

Sharp Minds has won a potential $473M contract to perform labor services at a U.S. Army facility in Chambersburg, Pa., that focuses on updating air and missile defense and precision fire systems for military personnel.

U.S. Transportation Command has re-awarded the potential $7.2B Global Household Goods Contract to American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier Group after the Government Accountability Office denied a protest of the contract award and Transcom completed its assessment.

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a 10-year, $900M contract to help the U.S. Air Force design, produce, deploy and sustain a common architecture for training simulators.

James Taiclet, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), said the company has accelerated more than $1.1B in progress payments it has received from the Department of Defense to its suppliers to support the defense industrial base and national security efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) introduced Thursday his proposal for the fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act that would earmark $3.6B in funds for the Indo-Pacific Reassurance Initiative as part of efforts to counter China, Defense News reported Friday.

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a $439.2M contract modification from the U.S. Army to build AH-64E Apache helicopters for Morocco. The company will also provide Longbow flight simulators to support crew training with the attack helicopter platform, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded six companies positions on a potential $975M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services with mid-endurance unmanned aircraft systems.

ASIRTek Federal Services has won a potential five-year, $78M contract to provide information security services for the U.S. Air Force.

Ty Schieber, board chairman of the accreditation body for the Pentagon’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, said certification and audit data of contractors seeking accreditation under CMMC will be hosted on the Department of Defense Information Network, Nextgov reported Tuesday.