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Sprint, Kansas City, Mo., was awarded a contract valued at up to $65 million by the Florida Department of Corrections to provide long distance telephone services for inmates at 53 correctional facilities.

The Orkand Corp., Tysons Corner, Va., was awarded a $22.5 million contract for technical support services by the U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Va.

Department of Defense

Longbow LLC, Orlando, Fla., a Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. joint venture, received a $93.8 million contract from the U.S. Army for production of Longbow Apache fire control radar. The equipment will be delivered in 1998 with work divided between LM facilities in Orlando, and NG facilities in Baltimore.

Prosoft Inc., Virginia Beach, Va., was awarded the DISA Information System Network contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency, Arlington, Va. Under the five-year, $75 million contract, Prosoft will operate, maintain, upgrade and expand the DISANet, serving more than 11,000 users at more than 10 locations in the national capital region. Prosoft was also awarded a five-year, $14.6 million telecommunications support contract from the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, R.I.

ViaSat Inc., Carlsbad, Calif., won an $8.6 million contract for UHF satellite communication products from the U.S. Air Force Electronics Systems Center.

Science Applications International Corp., San Diego, as a part of a team led by the Raytheon Co., was awarded a $500 million indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for the Command and Control Product Lines Program. The award was made by the Air Force Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass.

Nichols Research Corp., Huntsville, Ala., was awarded a contract by the Air Force Development Test Center, Elgin AFB, Fla., for Joint Test and Evaluation Engineering Analysis and Test Support. The one-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract is valued at $35 million.

ARINC Inc., Annapolis, Md., was awarded a technical and engineering services contract to support the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Test and Evaluation Engineering Department at Patuxent River, Md. The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract has a one-year base valued of $8 million and includes four option years which, if all options are exercised, could bring the total value to $73.9 million.

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The United States Display Consortium, San Jose, Calif., awarded Photronics Inc., Brookfield, Conn., a contract to upgrade its manufacturing equipment for 1X lithography used in flat panel display manufacturing. The contract is worth approximately $3.8 million.

LCI International Inc., McLean, Va., signed a multiyear contract with Strategic Marketing and Communications, New York. Under the terms of the agreement, valued at approximately $19 million, LCI will provide its long distance network to support Strategic Marketing and Communications' Classic Coinex prepaid calling cards.

Telephonics Corp., Farmingdale, N.Y., received a contract valued at more than $100 million from British Aerospace Limited, Warton Aerodrome, England, to supply communications systems for the Royal Air Force's Nimrod 2000 Maritime Patrol Aircraft Program.

Hughes STX Corp., Vienna, Va., an operating unit of Hughes Technical Services Co., was awarded a contract to develop a satellite ground processing system for the China Center for Resources Satellite Data and Applications. The contract is estimated at approximately $10 million.

AT&T, Basking Ridge, N.J., was awarded a multiservice global contract from United Technologies Corp., Los Angeles, valued at $200 million over the next five years.

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