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TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 22, 2020 — Vince Vlasho, a senior managing director and defense portfolio lead at Accenture Federal Services, told ExecutiveBiz in an interview that AFS' previous work with the U.S. Air Force on the Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System has helped position the business to assist USAF in building a cloud-based common enterprise resource planning system.

Atlas Research is part of a Digital Mobilizations Inc.-led team that won a position on a five-year, $990M contract vehicle to help the U.S. Air Force implement and manage enterprise transformation initiatives.

Raytheon Technologies' (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business has secured a $239.1M contract modification with the U.S. Air Force to produce a sixth batch of Stormbreaker weapons equipped with a tri-mode seeker technology.

The Air Force selected Amentum to provide maintenance services for all fixed-wing aircraft platforms under the 10-year, $14 billion Aircraft Maintenance Enterprise Solution (ACES) contract vehicle. Amentum was awarded a position on the new multi-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract in July. “We are excited to continue serving our Air Force customers under the ACES contract,” said Dr. Karl Spinnenweber, executive vice president and general manager of Amentum’s Mission Readiness Group.

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a three-year, $149.5M delivery order from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide consumable parts for the U.S. Air Force's KC-46 Pegasus tanker aircraft.

Hydraulics International has been awarded a potential nine-year, $377.4M contract to supply hydraulic fluid purifiers and other equipment for multiple U.S. Air Force aviation platforms.

Primer has appointed retired Army Gen. Raymond Anthony Thomas III and retired Air Force Lt. Gen. VeraLinn Jamieson as advisory board members to help grow the company's work in the defense and intelligence sectors. “From their time spent on the battlefield and in the Pentagon, they know exactly what kinds of capabilities our military requires to ensure the safety of the U.S. and its allies,” Primer founder and CEO Sean Gourley.

Nine entities have won spots on a potential $400M contract to develop autonomous elements and support prototyping of the U.S. Air Force's Skyborg unmanned aircraft for experimental purposes.

A Textron (NYSE: TXT) subsidiary will provide adversary training for U.S. Air Force's F-35 and F-22 fighter pilots stationed at Eglin AF Base in Florida starting January under a potential $92M contract.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been awarded a $709.8M contract modification by Naval Air Systems Command to obtain materials needed for the low-rate initial production of additional F-35 jets for U.S. and foreign military sales customers. The modification funds material purchases for lot 15 through lot 17 aircraft of the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps as well as FMS and non-Department of Defense participants, DoD said Monday.