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Northrop Grumman Newport News, Newport News: $8.7 billion split over five years with General Dynamics Electric Boat, from the U.S. Navy to build six Virginia-class submarines. (08/15/03, Daily Press)

SAVVIS Communications, Herndon, a contract to provide managed networking and Internet services to Lions Gate Entertainment, an independent worldwide producer and distributor of motion pictures, home entertainment, television programming, animation and video-on-demand content. (08/20/03, Business Wire)

RS Information Systems Inc., Fairfax: $48 million from the National Weather Service, to provide a broad range of support in information technology and science-related services at the agency's Silver Spring headquarters. (08/19/03, Business Wire)

Advanced Technology Systems Inc., McLean: $ 9.1 million over six years from the Federal Housing Finance Board to provide managed information technology infrastructure operations and services for the independent regulatory agency. (08/18/03, Business Wire)

PlanetGov Inc., Chantilly: a blanket purchase agreement for one year with renewal options from the U.S. Army Information Technology, E-Commerce and Commercial Contracting Center, West, Fort Huachuca, Ariz., to provide an array of services. (08/14/03, Business Wire)

American Management Systems Inc., Fairfax: $8.5 million from the Alaska's Office of Children's Services to build a child welfare management system for the state, giving 450 social workers in 33 locations the ability to share information on child abuse and neglect cases. (08/14/03, PR Newswire)

Anteon International Corp., Fairfax: $49 million over six years, from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to provide services supporting AFRL's program to advance the state-of-the-art in laser hardened materials technology. (08/11/03, PR Newswire)

Radian Inc., Alexandria (a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Engineered Support Systems Inc.): $21.8 million firm-fixed-price contract modification to provide the U.S. Air Force with hardware components of the Deployable Power Generation and Distribution System. (08/08/03, PR Newswire)

PEC Solutions Inc., Fairfax: two task orders under an existing $4.6 million blanket purchase agreement over a year from the Department of Homeland Security's Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, to provide a host of program services. (08/07/03, Business Wire)

Atlantic Coast Airlines, Dulles: $30 million branding and marketing account given to gkv communications, a full-service agency headquartered in Baltimore, to launch ACA's new independent low-fare airline. (08/07/03, Business Wire)

PEC Solutions Inc., Fairfax: two contracts under the Drug Enforcement Administration's Concorde Program to provide business process reengineering services and to engineer case management enhancements. (08/06/03, Business Wire)

Orbital Sciences Corp., Dulles: initial phase of a $25 million satellite manufacturing contract from a university team led by Hampton University, to manage satellite development for the university. (08/06/03, Business Wire)

MAXIMUS, Reston: $4.9 million over three years to provide enterprise-wide access control and information security support services to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (08/04/03, Business Wire)

comScore Networks, Reston: $18 million over five years with a long-term client to use comScore's services. (08/04/03, PR Newswire)

Optimos, Chantilly: $7.6 million over five years to provide a Government Paperwork Elimination Act Compliant Siebel System that will enable federal agencies to transfer their records electronically to the National Archives and Records Administration for storage. (08/01/03, PR Newswire)

United Defense Industries Inc., Arlington: $97.6 million to its Swedish subsidiary, Bofors Defence AB, for the systems development and demonstration phase of the Excalibur program by Ratheon Missile Systems. (08/01/03, Business Wire)

ManTech Advanced Systems International Inc., Fairfax: contract awarded from the National Security Agency, to provide full-cycle engineering, operations and maintenance support. (07/28/03, Business Wire)

General Dynamics Land Systems, Sterling Heights, Mich., a business unit of General Dynamics of Falls Church: $11 million first order firm-fixed priced contract over five years for 5,400 cylinder assemblies. (07/31/03, PR Newswire)

SI International Inc., Reston: estimated $11 million over four years to support the Joint National Integration Center with systems engineering, information security engineering, information management and administrative support as a subcontractor to SRS Technologies. (07/30/03, PR Newswire)

Framatome ANP, Lynchburg: a contract from Bechtel National Inc., to design, analyze and fabricate three evaporator systems in support of the Waste Treatment Plant Project at the U.S. Department of Energy's Hanford Reservation near Richland, Wa. (07/25/03, PR Newswire)

Anteon International Corp., Fairfax: $7.4 million over five years from the U.S. Navy Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems to continue its support to the Standard Missile and Vertical Launching System program office. (07/2/03, PR Newswire)