
The U.S. Army has tapped three companies – AASKI Technology, Leidos [LDOS] and Textron [TXT] AAI Corp. – to share in a five-year, $900 million contract to provide technical services and field support for tactical unmanned aircraft systems.The three firms will compete for work under the contract. The Department of Defense, which announced the contract April 6, said the Army received a total of five bids. In an April 19 press release, Leidos said its work under the contract “will…