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Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), L-3 Services Incorporated and Northrop Grumman have been awarded a combined $495 million force protection security system contract to support any or all of 10 essential elements of integrated base defense that include deceive, deter, anticipate, deny, detect, delay assess, deploy, neutralize and mitigate at U.S. Air Force and other Defense Department sites throughout the world.

L-3 Global Communications Solutions Incorporatedand the U.S. Southern Command (USSOCOM) are modifying a contract for the procurement of satellite communication terminals in support of the USSOCOM Special Operations Forces Deployable Node-Medium program.

L-3 Communications Systems-West is being awarded a $60 million contract for the manufacture, test and delivery of 9 SRQ-4(Ku) radio terminal sets (RTSs) for ship small-surface combatants and 45 ARQ-58 RTSs for the MH-60R aircraft, including technical data.

The U.S. Air Force is awarding a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to L-3 Communications Link Simulation and Training for an estimated $23 million. This action will provide B-2 training system follow-on concurrency with the B-2 weapon system and contractor logistics support of existing B-2 training devices.

L-3 Communications Flight International is being awarded a $22 million modification to a previously awarded contract for commercial air services and military operations support. This modification provides airborne threat simulation training for shipboard and aircraft squadron weapon systems operators and aircrew in order to enhance abilities to counter potential enemy electronic warfare and electronic attack operations in an electronic combat environment.

The U.S. Air Force is awarding an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to L-3 Communications Corporation for a maximum of $49,750,000. This action will provide for small unmanned aerial systems research and evaluation program to provide maximum flexibility for research and evaluation for the small unmanned serial system.

L-3 Communications has been selected as one of the multiple awardees for the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Omnibus Contract (STOC II). The STOC II program is an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantityvehicle with a contract ceiling of $17.5 billion.

L-3 Communications' Communications Systems-East division has been awarded a contract by Bollinger Shipyards to provide the C4ISR system for the U.S. Coast Guard's Fast Response Cutter program. Under an initial two-year contract, the company will design and deliver the first production shipset and related training systems. This contract also includes options for an additional 33 shipsets that if exercised would result in an overall contract value in excess of $100 million.

L-3 Communications' Montreal-based MAPPS division has been awarded a $61 million contract to supply its Integrated Platform Management System (IPMS) upgrade for the Canadian Navy's 12 Halifax Class frigates. The IPMS will modernize the frigate's ship control system and improve the operational effectiveness of the vessels.

L-3 Communications' WESCAM subsidiary has been awarded a $90 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract from the U.S. Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center for MX-15Di turrets.