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Kevin Nunes, former deputy director of Headquarters Marine Corps Contracting, has joined Aminad Consulting to serve as principal of the advisory services company. Nunes will work on business development and customer service efforts to help Aminad pursue further growth.

Global Air Logistics and Training will build and deliver four prototype airborne networking and communication systems to the U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory under a $23.9 million contract. The Fused Integrated Naval Network communications gateway is designed to work with an unmanned air vehicle to explore the sharing of data between distributed forces, GALT said Monday.

Omnispace has demonstrated connectivity between 5G devices and satellites for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The company said Monday it tested the new satellite-based 5G with the National Security Innovation Network, a group that brings industry, academia and military together to address defense challenges via new technology.

The U.S. Army has selected Trident Systems' predictive maintenance technology as the winner of a combat vehicle-focused topic area for a competition under the military branch's Small Business Innovation Research initiative. Trident said Thursday it will receive funding to develop its Predictive Maintenance Analyzer as part of the Army xTech SBIR effort's “Topic F: Condition Based Maintenance for Combat Vehicles“ track.

The U.S. Marine Corps has received an amphibious combat vehicle variant from BAE Systems and will test the performance of the new model in command-and-control mission scenarios. BAE developed the ACV-Command platform with workstations to support on-the-move digital communications and analysis work for combat operations.

David Kalinske, a two-decade U.S. Marine Corps veteran, has been named chief revenue officer of Morpheus Space after the Germany-based spacecraft propulsion technology company established a U.S. office in Los Angeles, SpaceNews reported Thursday.

The U.S. Marine Corps has exercised a $184 million contract option to procure additional amphibious combat vehicles from BAE Systems, increasing the number of ACV full-rate production units ordered by the branch to 72. “The ACV was designed to meet the Marines' needs of today while allowing for growth to meet future mission role requirements," said John Swift, director of amphibious programs at BAE.

The U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command is conducting market research to help inform the development of an enterprise data environment that will manage and disseminate open-source intelligence on potential threats.

The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon Technologies a $49.2 million contract modification to provide F135 turbofan engines to support testing of an F-35 Lightning II aircraft iteration for the Department of Defense and non-DOD participants.

Simba Chain has secured a $1.5M contract with the Office of Naval Research to further develop a blockchain-driven inventory surveillance technology for the Defense Logistics Agency.

BAE Systems has signed a nine-year agreement with Vertex Aerospace to increase the availability of the U.S. Marine Corps' AV-8B Harrier II fleet. "This new contract with Vertex Aerospace ensures we can continue to apply our expertise to support the U.S. Marine Corps in their crucial operations,“ said Tom Fillingham, senior vice president of US Programs at BAE Systems Air.

The DSC-EMI Maintenance Solutions joint venture has won a potential $61.1M contract for management, maintenance, supervision and other services needed to ensure continuous operations at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California.

An Ultra Electronics subsidiary has received a $31M order to supply software-defined tactical radio systems to the U.S. Marine Corps for line-of-sight communications. USMC ordered ORION X500 radios via a potential $497M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract Ultra TCS secured last year, the company said Monday.

An Elbit Systems of America subsidiary has been selected to develop two prototypes of a multispectral weapon sight technology intended for U.S. Marine Corps' target acquisition and engagement operations.

Vincent Stewart, a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general and four-time Wash100 Award recipient, has been named chief innovation and business intelligence officer of Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm Ankura.