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Under Contract

by The Hill staff - 07/15/15 7:22 PM ET

• The Army Corps of Engineers awarded a contract worth up to $12.2 million to a joint venture between two companies based in Massachusetts: CMC-USA Inc. and LM Heavy Civil Construction LLC. The companies will be building four new “support buildings” for the Israel Defense Force. The project will
likely be completed by Nov. 9, 2016.

• The National Park Service is spending $28,120 for the restoration and repair of a historic 1920s-era clock in the Virgin Islands. The contractor, Virginia-based company Newport Cutter Grinding, is tasked with making the clock fully operational.

•The U.S. Agency for International Development needs wireless Internet for the residential compounds used by U.S. government employees in South Sudan. Castor Networks, located in the Netherlands, won the contract, which will not exceed $1.21 million. “The compound has a user community of between 80–100 people with area size of approximately 18,000 square meters,” according to contract documents.

• The Bureau of Land Management office in the Alaska region is spending nearly $9,000 on wildlife cameras that come complete with bear-proof enclosures. Reconyx, which specializes in “designing, manufacturing and selling digital infrared game cameras,” won the contract.

• The U.S. Army is working with Boeing on a foreign military sales contract worth about $7.5 million. The contract is a modification to an existing one and will provide Turkey and the United Arab Emirates with CH-47F Chinook cargo helicopters.

“Both countries [sic] aircraft will use different paint schemes and markings, and be shipped to the respective countries, and have unique equipment,” according to the Defense Department.

• The U.S. Department of Agriculture has commissioned Rainforest Contracting to build and install five “interactive sign kiosks” at various sites on Prince of Wales Island, which is off the coast of Alaska. The contract, worth $67,900, does not include the carvings or artwork on some of the panels. It does, however, involve removing some old U.S. Forest Service kiosks.

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