General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has won a potential $156,370,264 contract modification from the U.S. Army for engineering services on the branch’s fleet of Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft. The Army awarded the modification on a cost-plus-fixed-fee, option-eligible, non-multi-year basis.

Work will occur at Poway, Calif. and the Army is allocating fiscal year 2013 other funding for the award. GA-ASI also holds a $354,683,431 contract to help sustain the Army’s Gray Eagles in Afghanistan under both operations and maintenance and other procurement funds.

Parsons, as part of a joint venture (JV) with G4S had $64 Million added to there previously awarded contract to provide base operations support (BOS) to the U.S. Navy Support Facility on Diego Garcia. The facility, located on a remote, British-controlled atoll in the Indian Ocean, provides logistics support for U.S. military forces deployed in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. Department of Defense (DoD) announced: