Texas Business reports:  A San Antonio firm won a $14.1 million contract for Army tech support, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  Lockheed won a $14.1 million to an F-35 design contract, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports: The nation's third Littoral Combat Ship, USS Fort Worth (LCS 3), successfully completed its U.S. Navy acceptance trials and will be delivered to the Navy this summer. 

Texas Business reports:  A Fort Worth firm won a $237.7 million contract change to manage hardware and software changes, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

 Texas Business reports:  A San Antonio firm won a $56.1 million contract to provide food for the U.S. govnerment, the U.S. Department of  Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  A Grand Prairie firm won a $34.6 million contract to support Patriot Missiles, announced the U.S. Department of Defense. 

Texas Business reports: Aegion Corporation’s subsidiary, Insituform Technologies LLC won a  $16.3 million contract from the Trinity River Authority of Texas for the rehabilitation of over 17,200 feet of 96-inch sewer pipelines in the City of Irving, Texas. 

Texas Business reports:  DALLAS—Lockheed Martin's PAC-3 Missile successfully intercepted and destroyed a cruise missile target Thursday at the Utah Test and Training Range in an interoperability demonstration utilizing the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor (JLENS) and the PATRIOT system.

Texas Business reports: AUSTIN, Texas—BAE Systems has completed construction of the company's new manufacturing center in Austin.

Texas Business reports:  A Nevada firm won a $7.7  million contract to support Fort Hood’s public works department, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports: A McKinney firm won a $19.7 million contract to modernize army tanks, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Dallas-area firm won an $11 million contract to support Skytrain aircraft, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  Fort Worth’s Lockheed Martin won two major contract changes that total more than $112 million and involve the controversial F-35 program, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  TEMPLE—McLane Advanced Technologies (MAT) announced that as the subcontractor to SAIC, the company was awarded a contract by the Software Engineering Center (SEC-Lee) for Property Book Unit Supply Enhanced (PBUSE). 

Texas Business reports:  A Michigan firm won a $9.5 million contract to build an electronic maintenance facility at Fort Bliss, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  A Louisiana firm won a $9.4 million contract to perform pipeline services in Houston, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports: A San Antonio firm won a $16 million contract to build a Florida reserve center, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Texas firm won a $191 million contract to provide high-tech targeting systems to the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports: HOUSTON—NASA has selected DynCorp International LLC of Fort Worth, Texas, to provide aircraft maintenance and operational support services under a contract potentially worth $176.9 million. 

Texas Business reports:  A Fort Hood construction contract was awarded to an Alabama firm, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports: DALLAS— Despite the budget crisis endured by school districts across Texas, the  Dallas Independent School District awarded a contract to Satterfield & Pontikes Construction, Inc. (S&P) to build the new Thelma Elizabeth Page Richardson Elementary School in southeast Dallas.

Texas Business reports:  A Grand Prairie firm won a $7.5 million contract to provide Patriot missile support, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  An Austin firm won a $14 million contract to provide food service at Fort Hood, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports: FORT WORTH—Lockheed Martin won a $248.8 million contract to provide more F-35s t the military, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  A Gatesville firm won a $6.9 million contract for modified vehicle bodies, the U.S. Department of Defense. 

Texas Business reports: AUSTIN—The Texas Facilities Commission (TFC) awarded a Construction Manager at Risk contract to Satterfield & Pontikes Construction Inc. for the exterior envelope replacement of the Robert D. Moreton building in Austin.

Texas Business reports:  A San Antonio firm received a $30 million contract to rebuild and renovate projects in the Northwestern United States for the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  FORT WORTH, TX & HUNT VALLEY, MD—Bell Helicopter and Textron Systems operating unit AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, both Textron Inc. companies, have teamed to develop a Manned Unmanned Operations (MUMO) Capability Development Laboratory in Huntsville, AL. to enable a software and hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) development test capability using operationally relevant systems specific to manned unmanned teaming. 

 Texas Business reports:  A California firm won a $7.4 million contract to recondition the site of an East Texas ammo plant, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Grand Prairie firm won a $45 million contract change for Patriot advance launcher kits, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

 Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON— NASA selected four Texas companies to perform architecture and engineering services at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Texas Business reports:  FORT WORTH—As part of the OH-58D Wartime Replacement Aircraft Cabin program, Bell Helicopter it has received a contract for the nonrecurring engineering and a “new metal” OH-58D cabin. 

Texas Business reports:  A San Antonio firm won a $36.3 million military aviation fuel contract, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  Lockheed of Fort Worth pulled in yet another defense contract.  The U.S. Department of Defense announced the Fort Worth firm won a $39.3 million contract change for the continuing development of the joint strike fighter program. 

Texas Business reports:  A Fort Worth company will share in a military contract that could be worth almost $50 million with one Maryland firm, three Virginia firms and three South Carolina firms to provide system support for various combat activities, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  A Round Rock firm won an $7.3 million contract for support of the military’s health insurance program, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.   

Texas Business reports: An Amarillo firm won an $9 million contract change to a U.S. Air Force aircraft contract.

Texas Business reports:  An Austin firm won an $11.2 million contract to provide 8.4 million meals to the U.S. military, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.

Texas Business reports:  Four Texas firms were among nine contractors that will share in a $492 million military contract.

Texas Business reports:  Amarillo’s Bell-Boeing won a $23.8 million order for a test Osprey aircraft, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports: DFW AIRPORT—More than one hundred employees and volunteers at DFW International Airport bid farewell to the final departing U.S. military charter flight this week, bringing an end to eight years of scheduled rest and recuperation (R&R) flights at the Airport.  

Texas Business reports:  A Fort Worth firm received a $664.4 million contract for F-22 support, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  An Amarillo firm won a $31.3 million order change for a defensive weapon system, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Grand Prairie firm won an $11 million contract change to retrofit missile launchers, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports: A San Antonio firm won an $82 million contract for internet security, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

 Texas Business reports:  A Houston firm won a $50 million contract to to pipeline dredging for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Virginia firm won a $100 million contract to provide support for the mission command center at Fort Hood, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  An Austin company won a $17.8 million contract to develop and support military air defense systems, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  DALLAS—Lockheed Martin completed delivery of all hardware and components associated with the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) weapon system's first U.S. Army Battery. 

Texas Business reports: A Hurst firm won an $11 million order for military helicopter repair work, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A McKinney firm won a $9.4 million order to repair military helicopter weapon systems.

Texas Business reports: A Hurst firm won an $87 million contract for supplies used in the operationg of military helicopters, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  DALLAS—Tyler Technologies Inc. signed an agreement with Missouri City, Texas, to deliver its Munis enterprise resource planning (ERP) and Incode  municipal court solutions under a software as a service (SaaS) agreement that enables the city to access current technology for a low upfront investment. 

Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON—The eagerly anticipated and much needed expansion of Henry W. Grady Middle School was recently completed by Satterfield & Pontikes Construction Inc. for the Houston Independent School District. 

Texas Business reports: DALLAS—Lockheed Martin received contracts totaling $921 million from the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command for hardware and services associated with the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment program.

Texas Business reports:  DALLAS—A grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will help improve the drinking water treatment system in Andrews, Texas.

Texas Business reports:  HANOVER, Md.—Conmed Healthcare Management Inc.,  it has purchased the assets of Panhandle Correctional Care, Inc., a Texas Corporation, including its three medical staffing contracts in the Texas panhandle.

Texas Business reports:  A Houston firm won a $65.9 million contract for aviation fuel, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports: A Houston-area firm won a $118.3 million order for mine resistant vehicles for the Marines, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Round Rock firm sold $20 million for software licenses and support to the U.S. military, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.

Texas Business reports: A $40 million contract for “Sport On Target” support of U.S. special forces will be performed in Dallas and Florida, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.

Texas Business reports:  A Fort Worth firm won a $7 million contract to install an oxygen sensor system.

Texas Business reports:  An Amarillo firm won a $7.2 million contract modification on parts for V-22 jets.

Texas Business reports: A Boerne firm will share in a military wood product contract worth up to $125 million with a South Dakota firm and a Louisiana firm, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  Two Texas firms will share a $49 million military health care contract with a Colorado firm and a Georgia company, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A California firm won a $376 million military satellite contract to be performed in Fort Worth, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.

Texas Business reports:  A Grand Prairie firm won a $16.4 million contract to support missile launchers, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. 

Texas Business reports:  GARLAND, Texas—Raytheon Company acquired privately held Henggeler Computer Consultants Inc., further extending Raytheon's capabilities to serve the cybersecurity, enterprise architecture and systems engineering needs of customers in the intelligence community as well as in the Department of Defense.

Texas Business reports: A McKinney firm won a $25.8 million contract for targeting system inprovements, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports: An Amarillo firm won an $11.4 million contract for radio retrofit kits for Osprey aircraft, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  A McKinney firm won a $44.7 million contract for high-tech targeting systems, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  BOCA RATON, Fla.—The GEO Group signed a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the continued management of the company-owned 1,904-bed South Texas Detention Center located in Pearsall, Texas.

Texas Business reports:  A California firm won a $68 million contract from a Texas government agency.

Texas Business reports:  An Amarillo firm won a $72.9 million contract to support and development of  Osprey aircraft, the U.S. Department of Defense. 

Texas Business reports:  A Fort Worth firm won a $13.9 million contract change for systems engineering for the Huey Helicopter program, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  An Amarillo firm won a $37.5 million order for military aircraft repair.

Texas Business reports:  An Illinois firm won a $7.7 million contract to do dredging in the Houston Ship Channel, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  A Texarkana firm won a $22.7 million ammunition contract, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports: An Austin firm won a $90 million contract to provide healthcare housekeeping for the military, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.  

Texas Business reports:  A Grand Prairie firm won yet another contract, this one for $25.4 million, to provide support for rocket launcher kits, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. 

Texas Business reports: An El Paso firm won an $85 million contract to provide support at a federal missile range, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  A Matagorda County firm won a $156.7 million military fuel contract, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—Time Warner Cable Business Class (TWCBC), a division of Time Warner Cable, won a multi-year services contract with the State of Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR), making the company's suite of network and internet solutions available to all state agencies.

Texas Business reports:  DALLAS—The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) awarded Entrust Inc. a four-year, $4.5 million contract to continue providing hosted PKI services and digital certificates as the security infrastructure for Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) initiatives. 

Texas Business reports:  An Amarillo firm won a $10.4 million change to an order for tilt rotor ice protection systems, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. 

Texas Business reports:  An Amarillo firm won a $7 million order for upgrades to tilt rotor aircraft upgrades, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  An Arizona firm won a $31 million contract to overhaul engines in Corpus Christi,  according to the U.S. Department of Defense.  

Texas Business reports: A Grand Prairie firm won a $16.1 million contract for further work on the Patriot missile system.

Texas Business reports: A Fort Worth-area firm won a $33.3 million contract change to provide missile launcher mod kits.

Texas Business reports: A Houston firm won a $6.6 million military contract for aviation fuel, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. 

Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON—Globalization opened the door for educational opportunities and travel around the world, but it also has left that door open for tropical diseases that are not commonly seen in the United States. Physicians with Ben Taub General Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine have established a new clinic to address and treat these diseases.

Texas Business reports: A Hurst firm won a $6.6 million contract to build transmission assemblies.

Texas Business reports:  Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation, parent company of Smith & Wesson Corp., the 159-year-old company, won  firearm contracts in Texas from the Austin Police Department and from the San Antonio Police Officers Association.

Texas Business reports:  FORT HOOD—Totally Green Inc., a provider of organic food processing systems and compostable packaging alternatives, installed two of its revolutionary ORCA Green Machines at the U.S. Army base in Fort Hood.

Texas Business reports:  On the eve of the World Series opening in Arlington, an Arlington firm won a $469.5 million contract to for fighter jet training, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Dallas-area firm won a $37.7 million contract change to provide Patriot Missile launcher kits, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.

Texas Business reports:  A Fort Worth firm won a $7.3 million contract for color displays, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Grand Prairie firm won a $7.5 million contract change to work on missile guidance systems, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.

Texas Business reports: An Austin firm won a $10.5 million contract for military maintenance, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Cibolo firm won an $11.3 million contract to work on military cargo handlers, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. 

Texas Business reports:  A McKinney firm won a $28.6 million contract for targeting systems for the Air Force, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Dallas firm won an $11.1 million contract to provide thermal sensing cameras for warfighters, the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency announced through the U.S. Department of Defense.

Texas Business reports:  A Greenville firm won a $12.5 million contract change for two recon aircraft.

Texas Business reports: A San Antonio firm won a $7.2 million order to install and modernize a utility meter system at a Virginia naval installation.

Texas Business reports:  A Mississippi firm won a $11.3 million contract for maintenance at Sheppard Air Force Base.

Texas Business reports:  A Fort Worth firm won an $8.6 million contract for a parts contract, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.

Texas Business reports: A San Antonio firm won a $29.9 million order for repair of a Navy fuel tunnel.

Texas Business reports:  A Dallas firm won a $10.2 million contract change to supply eyeglass cases to the military and federal agencies, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.

Texas Business reports:  A Florida firm won a $6.6 million order to do repairs at a Navy hangar in Corpus Christi.

Texas Business reports:  A Fort Worth firm won a $70 million contract change for base and aircraft support, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Maine firm won a $19.9 million contract to building a student center at Fort Sam Houston.

Texas Business reports:  An Iowa firm won a $7.5 million contract to replace boilers at Corpus Christi’s Naval Facilities.

Texas Business reports: An East Texas firm and a Fort Worth-area firm will share a $29.3 million contract to make M485 parts for the military, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports: The Department of Homeland Security office awarded a $215,055 contract to a Washington DC firm for a “tanker harness/shoulder holster system” with a place of performance in El Paso.  

Texas Business reports:  A Houston firm won a $7.3 million contract to develop war games, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.  

Texas Business reports:  A San Antonio firm will share in a $497 million contract with 25 other contractors, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports: DALLAS—Lockhead Martin's new Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System-Plus (GMLRS+) extended-range rocket successfully completed a 120-kilometer mission at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., an improvement in range of approximately 50 kilometers (31 miles) over the current GMLRS round.

Texas Business reports:  Two Marshall, Texas firms and a Pennsylvania firm won a $14.9 million contract to provide people and hardware to build military smoke cartridges, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  An Oklahoma firm won a $14.7 million order to build a hangar at Corpus Christi for the historic T-6 Texan aircraft, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Houston firm won a $313 million contract to provide base support in Iraq, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A McKinney firm won a $21 million contract to provide sensor equipment for special ops aircraft, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports: A Dallas-area firm won a $12 million contract to plan events for military members and family when during deployment and the return home, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  A Dallas firm won a $22 million contract for logistics support for military communications, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Dallas firm won a $47.6 million contract modification for Navy base support services, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

The Fort Worth, the nation’s third Littoral Combat Ship.

Texas Business reports:  The U.S.S Fort Worth, the nation’s third Littoral Combat Ship, will start sea trials this fall, Lockheed Martin announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Houston-area firm won a $10.1 million order to provide mechanics in Afghanistan, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports: A Gatesville firm won a $9.4 million contract to do electrical work at Fort Hood, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  The Corpus Christi Army Depot awarded a Maine firm a $15.3 million contract to test aircraft transmissions and gearboxes.

Texas Business reports:  A Maryland firm will complete a $35.7 million contract modification in Austin for Navy test systems, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  The Texarkana, Texas Red River Army Depot awarded a $13.9 million contract to an Ohio firm to provide paint and other products, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Houston-area firm won a $17.3 million contract to supply the military with an interlocking ground cover, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Grand Prairie firm won a $145.4 million contract modification to provide guided missile launching assemblies.

Texas Business reports:  A McKinney firm won a share of a $248 million contract with six other firms to provide security systems in Afghanistan.

Texas Business reports:  A Castroville firm won a $93,000 contract to install pool liners for the government’s fishery service, according to an award announcement by Federal Business Opportunities.

Texas Business reports:  A Maryland firm, Hughes Network Systems  LLC (HUGHES), the LLC, won a five-year contract by the State of Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) to provide primary business internet and access continuity services.

Texas Business reports:  A Mississippi firm won a $76,000 contract to cull mesquite and juniper from 778 acres at Fort Hood.

Texas Business reports:  DALLAS—Lockheed Martin received a $445 million follow-on contract for Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) Unitary rockets from the U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Command. 

Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON—NASA selected five firms for awards under a $400 million solicitation to perform large general construction projects.

Texas Business reports:  A McKinney firm won a $45.2 million contract to supply radar to the Department of Homeland Security, the government announced through an award notice through Federal Business Opportunities.

Texas Business reports:  Educational Testing Service (ETS), the nation's largest provider of teacher licensure assessments, announced that the Texas Education Agency (TEA) intends to enter into a five-year contract with ETS for the management of the Development and Administration of the Texas Educator Certification Examinations.

Texas Business reports: LUBBOCK—Four Texas Tech University professors recently received a four-year $1.2 million grant from the Office of Naval Research to develop more effective detection systems for finding explosive material.

Texas Business reports:  The Department of Justice awarded a $532.3 million contract to a Utah firm to manage and operate several “Short Term Sentence” prisons throughout the Southwest, mainly in Texas, according to an award posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website.

Texas Business reports:  A Sealy firm won an $18.6 million order to engineer changes on a vehicle emergency escape kit, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  A Lewisville firm won a $30 million remediation contract, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  When an area has the same number of square miles as Dallas (340), one should expect a large number of roads to be paved.

A Gatesville firm won a $32.5 million Fort Hood paving contract, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  Austin—State transportation officials approved 17 projects around the state to be funded by TxDOT’s pass-through finance program, pending final negotiations. The Texas Transportation Commission approved the projects, estimated at $173 million, at its monthly meeting.

Texas Business reports:  A Houston firm won a $22.7 million contract to provide environmental services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Nebraska firm won a $65 million contract to build a high explosive pressing plant at the Amarillo nuclear weapons plant.

Texas Business reports:  A Houston firm will win a $26 million defense contract to supply fuel oil burner, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  Three San Antonio firms and a Hawaii firm won a share of the right to bid for potentially $99 million in orders for military dental services, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  An Ohio firm won a $77.5 million contract to overhaul and repair engines at the Corpus Christi Army Depot, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  Fort Worth—Since the last F-35 flight test program update issued March 31, Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II aircraft have conducted 125 test flights, bringing the total number of flights for the year to 331.

Texas Business reports:  Dallas—Safeguard Security Holdings Inc., a provider of corporate, industrial and residential security solutions, announced that its Acquient business unit has signed on TXDOT (Texas Department of Transportation).

Texas Business reports:  The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) expanded its testing and investigative capabilities with the recent completion of its new crime lab in northwest Houston.

Texas Business reports:  A Fort Worth firm won a $6.8 million contract for mortar fire control system parts, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  An El Paso firm won a $457,000 contract to building the Midland probation offices.

Texas Business reports:  A Dallas firm won a $25.4 million contract to sale vision enhancers to the Saudi Arabian National Guard.

Texas Business reports:  The U.S. Air Force intelligence agency headquartered in San Antonio awarded a $69.6 million contract to a Virginia firm to run a virtual information tech desk as part of the service’s cyber combat support, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Delta II

Texas Business reports:  NASA awarded a Space Act Agreement for 92.3 million to the Boeing Company, Houston, to advance commercial crew space transportation concepts and mature the design and development of elements of systems such as launch vehicles and spacecraft.

Texas Business reports:  An Alaska firm won a $10.1 million contract to provide housekeeping services at Fort Sam Houston in Texas, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  The El Paso Customs and Border Protection office of the Department of Homeland Security awarded a $50,000 contract for five dogs to a North Carolina firm.

Texas Business reports:  A Garland firm won a $6.9 million contract for ground night vision systems, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Professional Contract Services

Texas Business reports:  An Austin firm won a $13.1 million contract to provide hospital housekeeping in Indiana and Kentucky for Walter Reed Medical Center, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Houston firm won a $4.1 million contract from the Department of Justice to provide residential reentry services in Brownsville.

Texas Business reports:  Lattice Incorporated, a provider of technological solutions to government agencies and enterprise customers, has installed its first inmate communication system in the state of Texas.

Texas Business reports:  A state agency won a $19 million contract to provide food and food services at Fort Bliss. the U.S. Department  of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  An Amarillo firm won yet another defense contract, this time a $10.4 million contract for hub assemblies, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.  

Texas Business reports:  An Amarillo firm won a $10.4 million contract to provide hub assemblies to the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  A Round Rock firm won a $2 million contract to supply a Base Information Transfer Center to the U.S. Air Force. 

Texas Business reports:  An El Paso bakery won a $19,000 contract to supply break for the third quarter this year to the Big Spring federal prison.

Unified Services of Texas

Texas Business reports:  A Southlake firm won an $817,000 contract to design, make and test an emergency generator for the U.S. Army.

Texas Business reports: A McKinney firm is sharing a $40 million contract with three other companies to provide aircraft maintenance in Utah and Arizona, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Carrolton firm won an $11.2 million contract to supply mine detectors and training to the Army, the U.S. Department of Defense.  

Texas Business reports:  A Maine firm won a $5.3 million bid to install and maintain Fort Hood’s computers and communication support for the next year.

RT Kalmar

Texas Business reports:  A Cibolo firm won a $7 million contract for forklifts, parts and service.

Texas Business reports:  Houston—Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) announced the creation of the Texas Children's Center for Global Health and the appointment of physician-scientist Russell E. Ware as director.

Corpus Christi Army Depot

Texas Business reports:  A $7.5 million contract was awarded to supply 800 maintenance personnel to the Corpus Christi Army Depot through near the end of April.  

Texas Business reports:  The U.S. Air Force awarded a $5.6 million contract to an Arizona firm to provide medical technician services to Lackland Air Force Base on the west side of San Antonio.

Texas Business reports:  Lockheed Martin Services received a $171 milllion contract to support civilian personnel management in San Antonio and Gaithersburg, Maryland, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control

Texas Business reports:  A Dallas firm won an $8.7 million contract to fund a missile segment enhancement overrun.

Waco Plans To Replace Less Energy Efficient Lights, Such As This Mercury Vapor Streetlight

Texas Business reports:  The City of Waco is taking bids for LED street light and lamps.

Texas Business reports:  A Fort Worth firm won yet another defense contract, this one for $18 million, to update the the electronics warfare  power supply on the Raptor fleet.

Texas Business reports:  A Midland firm won an $11 million federal fuel contract.

Texas Business reports:  An Austin firm won a $19 million contract to provide armor for mine resistant army vehicles, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Plano firm won two contracts tototing a $53 million contract to supply fuel to federal government agencies and military.

Bell UH-1Y during sea trials aboard USS Bataan

Texas Business reports:  A Fort Worth firm won a $48 million contract for parts and components of the Huey helicopter, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Port Lavaca firm won a $3.3 million contract to dredge the Gulf intracoastal waterway in Aransas, Calhoun and San Patricio Counties from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Texas Business reports:  Fort Worth—Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company,   that the U.S. Marine Corps' newest attack helicopter, the AH-1Z Cobra, achieved Initial Operating Capability ahead of schedule in February.

Texas Business reports:  A Corpus Christi firm won a $1.8 million award to restore the roof at the Corpus Christi Federal Courthouse.

Texas Business reports:  The city of Freeport selected ADT Security Services to provide and install the first phase of a wireless video surveillance system to help reduce crime in a public housing project and a marina.

Texas Business reports:  A Grand Prairie firm won a $7 million contract to eliminate obsolete components of the Taiwan Patriot Missiles, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  An Arizona firm won a $25 million contract to provide support and repair at the Corpus Christi Chinook engine depot.

AH-1Z

Texas Business reports:  A Fort Worth firm won a yet another order for support of the AH-1Z and HU-1Y project, this time a $12.6 million order, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Waco company won an $8 million contract to provide fuel to the federal government, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

 Texas Business reports:  A Grand Prairie firm won a $7 million contract to provide support and study of the Patriot Missile data system and activities, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Fort Worth firm won a $19 million contract to supply fuel, the U.S. Department of Defense.

Texas Business reports:  A McKinney firm won a $48 million contract to provide support for radar and infrared sensor systems for the U.S. Special Operations Command, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports: HAIFA, Israel— An Israeli defense company will fulfill an order for high tech U.S. army helmets in Fort Worth.

Texas Business reports:  A Greenville firm won a $23 million contract for C-27J engines and propellers. 

Texas Business reports:  An Austin firm won a $6.6 million order to design and build an water plant at a Navy base in Djibouti. 

Texas Business reports:  The United States Postal Service awarded a contract not to exceed $9.5 million for architect and engineer services for the Dallas area.

Texas Business reports:  An Amarillo firm won a $13.1 million order for the Osprey electrical upgrades required for its digital map system. 

Texas Business reports: A Grand Prairie firm won a $22.1 million contract to provide multiple launch rocket system upgrade kits and training, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Garland firm won a $68 million contract to provide support for an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance system for the military, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

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Texas Business reports:  Despite recent events in Egypt, a Fort Worth firm won a $19.8 million contract to provide support equipment for the government of Egypt, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  The Bureau of Prisons office of the U.S. Department of Justice awarded a $78,570 contract to a Cinncinnati firm to provide a test administrator conduct GED and pre-GED testing for inmates at the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Federal Correctional Institution and its satellite prison in Bastrop. 

Texas Business reports:  Dallas--Lockheed Martin's Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) has reached a key maturity milestone, accumulating over 145,000 combined internal and government testing miles across its family of vehicles.

An Austin company recently won a $2 million contract to provide portable potties for Fort Hood.

 Texas Business reports:  An Amarillo firm won a $9.8 million order increase for V-22 de-icers. 

Texas Business reports:    A Dallas firm won a $68.6 million contract for thermal weapon systems to be delivered to the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense announced.

V-22 Hovering Over Water

Texas Business reports:  A Hurst company received a $95 million contract to provide assembly parts for the U.S. Army, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  Lockheed Martin  received a $139.6 million contract to provide 44 combat-proven High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to the U.S. Army.

Texas Business reports:   NASA will exercise a one-year extension option for a contract with Computer Science Corporation of Fort Worth  to provide aircraft maintenance and modification support.

Texas Business reports:  A Corpus Christ firm won a $12.7 million contract to provide for an airman training complex, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports: An Illinois firm won a contract to provide maintainence and support of combat and tactical vehicles with the Red River Army Depot in Texarkana, Texas.

Texas Business reports:  A Grand Prairie firm won an $18 million contract to provide Patriot missile software to the United Arab Emirates.

Texas Business reports:  A Fort Worth firm won a $24.8 million contract change to provide support service at a Mississippi Air Force base, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports: Round Rock’s Dell Won its second contract from the U.S. Coast Guard in the last six months.

Texas Business reports:  A Houston firm won a $288,000 contract to  do structural improvements to the U.S. Coast Guard hangar at Ellington Field. 

Texas Business reports:  Victoria County launched an upgrade from Manatron Inc., the software company announced.

Texas Business reports: Dallas—Lockheed Martin received two contracts totaling $218 million for the Demonstration Phase of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's (DARPA) Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) program.

Texas Business reports:  HP won a 52-month services agreement with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to create a statewide Medicaid health information exchange.

Texas Business reports:  An Amarillo firm received a $24.2 million order to provide support and engineering for the Osprey military aircraft. 

Texas Business reports:  A California firm won an $8.3 million contract to do levee remediation in the Rio Grande Valley.

Texas Business reports:  A $50 million contract to overhaul the Apache weapon system and a $44 million overhaul of the Chinook weapon system will be performed in Corpus Christi, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports: A Virginia Firm won a $6.8 million for support and maintenance at Fort Hood, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.  

Texas Business reports:  A Fort Worth firm won another modification worth $22 million on an previously awarded defense contract, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

 Texas Business reports:  A McKinny firm won a $9.9 million contract to provide support for a military targeting system.

Troops at Camp Lemmonier

Texas Business reports:  An Austin firm won a $7.1 million contract modification for building a dining room at a Djibouti camp installation, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Grand Prairie firm won a $916 million contract to provide tactical missiles to two foreign governments, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  A San Antonio firm won a $10.1 million order for infrastructure meters and communication for Navy installations in Hawaii.

Texas Business reports:  A McKinney firm received a $48.9 million order for the repair of military aircraft targeting systems. 

Texas Business reports:  A Fort Worth Firm received a $76 million contract modification to support production of jet fighters, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports: A Fort Worth firm won a $9.1 million contract to update the Patriot Missile rocket motors.

Texas Business reports:  A Nasa cargo mission contract will be performed in Texas. 

Texas Business reports:  An Arlington firm is one of several that are participating in support services for more than 900 training simulators for the U.S. and foreign governments in contracts not to exceed $900 million. 

Texas Business reports:  A San Antonio firm won a $14.1 million contract modification for the overhaul of military aircraft core modules.

Texas Business reports:  A Laguna Vista company won a $21 million contract to provide solid waste management at Fort Hood. 

Texas Business reports:  An Illinois firm won a communication networking contract with the  Texas Department of Information Resources. 

Texas Business reports: A Fort Worth aviation firm won a $6.7 million contract moficiation to provide maintenance, munitions and support for the Air Armament Center, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A San Antonio firm won a $9 million contract for food service to the military, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Wisconsin firm won a contract to lease tents to a San Antonio military installation.

Texas Business reports:  The lion’s share of a $157 million anti-ship missile program change is to be performed in Grand Prairie, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.  

Texas Business reports:  A Dallas firm won a $7.3 million contract of missile segment enhancement, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Sealy firm won a $25.6 million order to support the operations of the for Marine tactical vehicles, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  An Austin firm won a $6.9 million to provide bar armor kits for Buffalo mine protected clearance vehicles, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  A Houston towing company received a $3.3 million South Texas contract to tow vehicles for the asset forfeiture division for the U.S. Marshals Southern District of Texas. 

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Texas Business reports:  A McKinney firm won an $11.5 million to work on targeting systems for Predator and Reaper systems, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.  

Texas Business reports:  Austin—Knight Security Systems, a leading security systems integrator,   completed Group I and II of its contract with the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) to install cameras and centralized video security management at its 12 state-supported living centers located across the state.

Texas Business reports:  A Stafford company won a $.5 million order to remediate a range at the Quantico Marine Corps Base. 

Texas Business reports:  A Roanoake aviation firm received a $9.8 million award for various U.S. Air Force projects, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  An Austin company won a $16.1 million contract to housekeeping services to be provided to five military medical centers, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business notes this story by Kevin Krause of the Dallas Morning News:  Dallas County commissioners are planning to lease jail beds in Waco from McLennan County at a daily rate of $45 each if the Dallas County Jail population becomes too high to manage.

Texas Business reports: An Austin Firm won a $34.3 million contract for sensor systems for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports: An El Paso firm won a $27 million military fuel supply contract, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  DALLAS and SPARTANBURG, SC  The Lockheed Martin  Common Vehicle Next Generation (CVNG), an armed lightweight military vehicle, is ready for its initial in-theater deployment. 

Texas Business reports:  An Austin firm won a $9.2 million contract for Michigan base operation and maintenance, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  A Texarkana company won a $17.2 million contract to provide fragmentation grenades to the U.S. military, the Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  A Houston firm won a $43.1 million fuel supply contract for the Defense Logistics Agency, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  A Fort Worth firm received yet another contract modification of the F-35 fighter jet, this one worth $14.4 million, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports: The U.S. Army awarded a $217,026.60 contract to a Houston firm to repair the boat houses and warehouses for the Brazos River Floodgates and Colorado River Locks in Brazoria and Matagorda counties. 

Texas Business reports:  A San Antonio firm has won a $103 million contract to design and build communication and electrical system upgrades at California’s Camp Pendleton, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  A Virginia Firm won a $381,000 order to design and install a security system for the new Austin federal courthouse. 

Texas Business reports:  Fort Hood is soliciting contracts for portable chemical latrines. 

Texas Business reports:  A Connecticut firm won a $99,000 contract to provide simulated small arms ammunition for Active Shooter Response training at several Texas air force bases. 

Texas Business reports:  A Texas firm won a $7.8 million contract to provide family support for California National Guard soldiers, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  A Grand Prairie firm won a $7.1 million contract for a Patriot Missile control system, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Cibolo firm won an $8.1 million contract for container and facility rentals in Kuwait, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports: A Fort Worth firm won an $8 million contract for weapon control system components, the U.S. Department of Defense announced today.  

Texas Business reports:  An Illinois firm received an $11.6 million U.S. Army contract to supply fuel trucks and water trucks at Jacksonville, Texas, the U.S. Department of Defense announced today. 

Texas Business reports:  A New Boston propane company won an $86,000 U.S. Defense contract to supply propane, officials announced today. 

Texas Business reports:  A Louisiana firm won a $11.5 million contract to dredge four waterways in Jefferson County, the U.S. Department of Defense announced today.  

Texas Business reports:  The International Boundary and Water Commission is soliciting bids for someone to locate and uncover 34 centerline monuments along the Canutillo levee in El Paso County. 

Texas Business reports:  An Illinois firm won a $10.9 million contract to provide fuel trucks and water trucks to Jacksonville, Texas, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  South Texas Overhead Cranes and Hoists won a $40,000 contract to maintain and repair its monorail and trolley system in Corpus Christi, the U.S. Army announced today.  

Texas Business reports:  A San Antonio firm won a $12.2 million fuel contract to supply the military at Corpus Christi, the U.S. Department of Defense announced today. 

Texas Business reports:  A Sealey firm received a $628 million order to upgrade 1,700 armored vehicles  designed to survive IED attacks and ambushes, the U.S. Department of Defense announced today. 

Texas Business reports:  A Louisiana firm won an $11 million dredging contract from Galveston’s U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. 

Texas Business reports:  A Fort Worth firm won a $66.2 million contract for combat support services in Kuwait, the U.S. Department of Defense announced today. 

Texas Business reports:    Fluor Corporation announced today that Fluor-B&W Portsmouth LLC, was chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the next phase of cleanup at the Portsmouth site in Pike County, Ohio.

Texas Business reports:  A California firm recently won a $6.3 million contract to build levee improvements along the U.S.-Mexico boundary. 

Texas Business:  A breathing apparatus, building materials and advertising contracts were awarded Saturday by federal agencies to three California firms to perform in Texas.  

Texas Business reports:  More than 35 Texas libraries will share in a federal grant of almost $8 million awarded to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. 

Texas Business reports:  The U.S. Army announced today it is soliciting quotes for artwork reflecting San Antonio scenes for the Budge Dental Clinic at Fort Sam Houston that it intends to award to an Oklahoma company. 

Texas Business reports:  A $200 million contract was awarded to three San Antonio firms and one Colorado firm to continue an existing contract handled by Lackland Air Force Base, the U.S. Department of Defense announced today. 

Texas Business reports:  Bids are being taken to stabilize the banks of Aquilla Creek in McLennan County, announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture through its Texas Natural Resources Conservations Services office. 

 Texas Business reports:  The North Texas Tollway Authority and the Texas Department of Transportation unanimously approved the construction of TX121-Chisholm Trail highway from Fort Worth to Cleburne.

Texas Business reports:  A Florida construction firm won an $11.3 million contract to build a joint intelligence technical training facility at Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, the U.S. Department of Defense announced today. 

Texas Business reports:  U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently announced the selection of 3 Texas projects to develop technologies aimed at safely and economically storing carbon dioxide in geologic formations. 

Texas Business reports:  The Defense Logistics Agency awarded a $23.7 million fuel control contract to Aviall Services of Dallas, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.  

Texas Business reports:  Part of a $241 million contract awarded to a Virginia firm will be performed at the Red River Army Depot in Texarkana, Texas.

TexasBusiness.com reports:  A small portion of a $115 million Navy contract will be performed in Houston on the material and design for Ship 1 of the Mobile Landing Platform, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

TexasBusiness.com reports:  Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Rolling Meadows, Ill., won a contract with an estimated value of $77,655,380 for the procurement of 121 AN/AAQ-24(V) 25 Guardian laser transmitter assemblies for installation on CH-53D, CH-53E, and CH-46E helicopters, including associated technical data, announced the U.S. Department of Defense today. 

TexasBusiness.com reports:  A Virginia firm will perform more than $1 million of a Navy maintenance contract in Ingleside.

TexasBusiness.com reports:   BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration of Austin won an $11,014,052 contract for aluminum armor rod kits, the U.S. Department of Defense announced today. 

TexasBusiness.com reports:  A San Antonio-based firm won an $8.9 million contract to aid soldiers and their families with medical and travel issues, the U.S. Department of Defense announced today. 

TexasBusiness.com reports:  An Alaskan firm won a $15 million contract to built a lube facility at Fort Bliss, the U.S. Department of Defense announced today.  

TexasBusiness.com reports:  Leetex/Hill & Wilkinson LLC of Dallas won a $5,520,100 firm-fixed-price contract for construction of a child development center at Meridian Naval Air Station. 

TexasBusiness.com reports:  Clark/Hunt, JV, Tampa, Fla., won a $85,146,641 contract for extension construction and renovation at  San Antonio's Fort Sam Houston, the U.S. Department of Defense announced today.  

TexasBusiness.com reports:  Part of a $65.9 million contract awarded to the Boeing Co. for Harpoon missile parts ordered by foreign goverments will be performed in McKinney, the U.S. Department of Defense announced today.  

The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., won a $65,999,000 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of 32 Lot 85 Harpoon missile bodies (HMB) for the government of Taiwan; 4 Harpoon canister grade “B” missiles for the government of Canada; and associated spares and support. 

TexasBusiness.com notes:  A bid was awarded Monday to McLeod Construction of Fairfield, by the Anderson County Commissioners Court, to build a new records storage facility for the county. The amount of the bid was $159,740, which will include the feature to expand the building in the future and a rock facade on the front of the building, reports Wayne Stewart of the Palestine Herald-Press. 

TexasBusiness.com reports: Truman Arnold Cos. Inc. of Texarkana, Texas, won a $21,681,438 fixed-price contract with economic price adjustment contract for fuel. The company won the bid from over the internet as one of 52 bidders. 

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