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Boeing (NYSE: BA), Textron’s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary and other aerospace defense manufacturers have increased cleaning efforts and implemented telework capabilities, social distancing and other measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and maintain operations, FlightGlobal reported Friday. Other companies that have initiated similar efforts are Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Sikorsky and AeroVironment.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential $65.2M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to provide systems and services to facilitate interoperability between a narrowband military communication satellite network and an ultra high frequency satcom gateway.

Seventeen companies have won spots on a potential three-year, $73.7M contract from the U.S. Navy to design and build technology platforms for undersea warfare applications.

General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) ordnance and tactical systems unit, Northrop Grumman’s (NYSE: NOC) defense systems sector and Major Tool and Machine have received 15-month contracts worth a cumulative total of $74M from the U.S. Air Force to provide BLU 111 warhead assemblies.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a three-year, $165M contract modification to provide 255 next-generation guided missiles to the U.S. Navy and the German government.

Brian Fitzpatrick, chief growth officer of LMI, has been selected by the board of directors to replace David Zolet as the company’s CEO on an acting basis. Zolet, who also serves as LMI president and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, will step down from his current roles to pursue a new career opportunity, while the board will begin its search for his replacement as permanent president and CEO, LMI said Tuesday.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected a Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) subsidiary to be DARPA's commercial partner on a mission to demonstrate systems to assemble, update, repair, inspect and relocate customer satellites in orbit.

The Space Force has awarded a $240M contract to Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and a $191M contract to Boeing (NYSE: BA) to develop payloads to help the service branch secure military satellite communications. The two companies will help the new service branch develop Protected Tactical Satcom payloads for a family-of-systems architecture designed to provide anti-jam, beyond line-of-sight communications to tactical warfighters, the U.S. Air Force said Tuesday.

Seven companies have won positions on a potential five-year, $990M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide data collection and management support services for the Defense Intelligence Agency. The Virginia Contracting Activity issued the solicitation in December and received eight bids for the Data Science, Operations, Requirements, Exploitation and Engineering program, the Department of Defense said Monday.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a $262.3M contract modification for engineering and manufacturing development work on 15 active electronically scanned array radars designed for the U.S. Air Force's F-16 aircraft fleet.