Defense contractors land millions of dollars in new deals

Three defense contractors with ties to Dayton and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base have landed nearly $70 million in contracts, authorities say.

The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center gave a $25 million information technology contract to Dayton area contractor MacAulay Brown to support the Air Force Equipment Management Center for work at Wright-Patterson, according to the company.

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The system manages equipment buys and budgets, the company said.

Harris Corp. received a $24.9 million contract to continue engineering support to the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Integrated Demonstrations and Applications Laboratory. The lab is a real-time modeling and simulation facility to evaluate AFRL-developed sensor technologies, according to a Wright-Patterson spokesperson.

The business deal is a continuation of prior agreements. New Jersey-based Harrison Corp. will perform the work at Wright-Patterson through February 2021, according to the Defense Department.

BTAS Inc. of Beavercreek received a $19.6 million contract to provide professional advisory services to the Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence and Networks Directorate at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., according to the Defense Department. The agreement, an extension of a prior contract, runs through June 2018.

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