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The State Department has cleared Kazakhstan's request to buy King Air B300ER Scorpion multimission aircraft along with related intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance equipment from the U.S. government through a potential $128.1M foreign military sales transaction.

Janet Kavandi has been elevated from senior vice president to executive VP of Sierra Nevada Corp.'s space systems group. The 25-year NASA veteran will manage the SSG business organization and its programs that include the Dream Chaser, a cargo spacecraft the company is manufacturing under its Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract with the space agency.

The U.S. Army has awarded Sierra Nevada Corp. a potential 10-year, $318.9M contract to produce, engineer and sustain handheld devices that are designed to secure tactical communications. Army Contracting Command received one bid for the hybrid contract covering simple key loader support services, the Department of Defense said Monday.

Sierra Nevada Corp. has secured a potential $700M contract from Special Operations Command to manufacture radio frequency countermeasure systems for protecting aircrews from radar and missile threats.

Cobham’s advanced electronic solutions business has unveiled nine members of its board of directors five months after private equity firm Advent International acquired the U.K.-based aerospace and defense technology supplier.

The U.S. Navy has selected 25 companies for a potential 11-year, $7.14B contract to perform full-rate production of aircraft components and aviation systems for the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division.

Sierra Nevada Corp. will manufacture two light attack aircraft for the U.S. Air Force under a $128.9M contract that also covers associated support and sparing services.

Five companies have won spots on NASA’s potential $2.6B Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract, bringing the total number of awardees to 14.

The U.S. Air Force plans to buy up to six light-attack aircraft from Textron (NYSE: TXT) and a Sierra Nevada Corp.-Embraer team for use in training and experimental activities as part of the National Defense Strategy.

Sierra Nevada Corp. has tapped United Launch Alliance to provide launch services for its Dream Chaser spacecraft, which will perform six cargo resupply missions to the International Space Station for NASA.