Leidos has fought to keep an incumbent Transportation Security Administration contract since October but has now withdrawn its protest. That clears the way for Peraton to take over the work.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems won a $49.3 million order to continue work on the MQ-9 Reaper drone under an Air Force Special Operations Command and Air Combat Command contract.
Concurrent Technologies Corp., Southwest Research Institute and the University of Dayton Research Institute will share in $49 million Air Force contract for research-and-development work related to alternative energy.
CSRA books a potential five-year, $238 million task order to help the Veterans Affairs Department shift to a managed service provider model for IT services.
The Department of Health and Human Services awards a potential eight-year, $207 million IT services blanket purchase agreement to at least six companies.
Lockheed Martin has settled a False Claims Act allegation for $4.4 million after being accused of providing defective communications systems to the U.S. Coast Guard.
The Army has twice awarded a $24.9 million contract to Octo Consulting to support brain injury research and for a second time a losing bidder has objected.
