Protective Products Enterprises, Inc., of Sunrise, Fla., was awarded a firm-fixed-price contract with a maximum $119,879,068 for improved outer tactical vest and outer tactical vest components. There are no other locations of performance. (Read more)

Florida-based Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc. has been selected to produce high tech biofuel steam engines for the U.S. Army. (Read more)

Harris Corporation, a Melbourne-based international communications and information technology company, has received a $51.5 million delivery order for next-generation military satellite communications terminals that will provide the worldwide backbone for high-priority military communications and missile defense systems. (Read more)

Aero Engineering Support, an Indiana Company that repairs and overhauls high-end electronics, weapon systems and accessories for military operators worldwide and Prime Contractors, is establishing its world headquarters in Osceola County. (Read more)

C Products Defense Inc. has moved its manufacturing operation and distribution arm from Connecticut to Manatee County where the company plans to add 100 employees in the next five years. (Read more)

Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Orlando-based military training division has landed a contract potentially worth nearly $36 million to manage pilot training and other services for one of the largest military aircraft in the world. (Read more)

Sypris Electronics, LLC, a subsidiary of Sypris Solutions, Inc., announced it has opened its new state-of-the-art Cyber Collaboration Center within its Tampa, Florida headquarters. (Read more)

Melbourne's Harris Corporation was named #1 on Homeland Security Today's list "The Rising 10 of 2011", a list of companies that promise to grow quickly in coming years. (Read more)

Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Orlando operations have received two new contracts together worth nearly $70million to produce advanced cruise missiles and armored-vehicle gunnery-training simulators. (Read more)

Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Orlando training-systems division has landed a five-year Army contract to make advanced sensors, monitors and other instruments for armored-vehicle gunnery ranges across the country. (Read more)

Titusville-based Knight's Armament was awarded an $82 million contract to make as many as 10,800 sniper night sights for the U.S. Army. (Read more)

Clearwater's Bulova Technologies Ordnance Systems LLC has received a 5-year Master Blanket Purchasing Agreement award from the United States Army Contracting Command, Picatinny Arsenal. The award of this new BPA for weapons, combined with the previously announced award for ammunition, makes Bulova Technologies Group, Inc. a leading U.S. supplier of both non standard ammunition and weapons to U.S. and NATO forces. (Read more)

Modus Operandi, a leading software and information integration technology company, has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command to develop a system that identifies critical words and phrases for intelligence analysis, and maintains lists of these key words. (Read more)

A new high-tech training contract for Cubic Corp.'s Orlando-based Simulation Systems Division has set off a modest burst of hiring by the defense contractor. (Read more)

Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Orlando high-tech training unit has won a major Army simulation contract potentially worth $287 million. (Read more)

Intelligent Software Solutions (ISS), a global leader in geo-temporal application development, is opening a new office in Tampa, Fla., to support and expand its ongoing work with the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). (Read more)

Sypris Electronics, LLC, is developing an International Cyber Range for use by the U.S. and its partners to conduct realistic assessments of cyber warfare scenarios in a representative network environment with the objective of accelerating revolutionary advances in cyber security and cyber warfare initiatives. (Read more)

SRA International Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in homeland security-related areas,opened a new regional office in Tampa and plans to hire between 60 and 80 new employees. (Read more)

Palmetto-based Dynamic Innovations, a defense-based engineering and manufacturing company, is expanding & creating 100 new FL jobs. (Read more)

xG Technology, Inc., a Sarasota-based developer of a broad portfolio of wired and wireless communications technologies, has been awarded a contract to deploy an xMax cognitive cellular network that will provide mobile communications services for the U.S. Army's Fort Bliss Desert Training areas. (Read more)

Orlando-based Carley Corp. was awarded a $36 million contract to produce training technologies for the Marine Corps' advanced expeditionary fighting-vehicle program. Carley Corp. will use local subcontractors (including local operations of AEgis Technologies Group Inc., AVT Simulation Inc., Cole Engineering Services Inc. and Metters Industries Inc) to keep the work in Orlando. (Read more)

Orlando-based Engineering & Computer Simulations has launched TraumaCon, a mobile medic application, available through U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM). The application was developed as a platform-independent web application and targets mobile platforms such as the iPod Touch, iPad, iPhone, and Android smart phones. (Read more)

Abamis IT Solutions, a small military subcontractor which is part of the University of Central Florida's high-tech business incubator, just landed its first prime contract: a $2 million deal to help develop digital technology for the high-tech-training industry. (Read more)

Pinellas County's National Forensic Science Technology Center provides quality services including training, assessment, research and technology assistance to the justice, forensic science and military communities. Now, the non-profit organization is expanding with a for-profit spin-off, the Forensic Innovation Center, which will create 40 new jobs. (Read more)

Two emerging biotechnology company with a focus on finding better treatments for cancers are expanding to Palm Beach County and creating new high-tech jobs. (Read more)

Wide World Security Inc. of Bradenton plans to hire up to 100 employees over five years to operate a $35-million headquarters and training center for security and first-responder personnel on 400 acres in eastern Manatee County. (Read more)

Tyndall Air Force Base in Bay County has been chosen to receive 21 F-22 raptors. They are the only base in the country to receive an additional squadron, and this new addition will bring about 600 new jobs to the community. (Read more)

UTC Fire & Security - a business unit of United Technologies Corp. - will solidify and expand its presence in Florida by locating the headquarters for its Global Security Products, Global Fire Products and Fire & Security Services groups in the state, and by establishing a new fire research and test center here. (Read more)

Valencia Community College was selected by the Transportation Security Administration as one of 32 colleges nationally picked for an educational partnership. This positions the Orlando college to take a leading role in homeland security. (Read more)

Saab Training USA - an Orange County company that specializes in the development and manufacturing of advanced simulation training systems for the U.S. Military, Foreign Military, and Homeland Security - has expanded their operations in the Central Florida Research Park. (Read more)

Defense-industry giant Lockheed Martin Corp. is dramatically expanding its Orlando-based high-tech training division's footprint by adding operations in Maryland and California to the local organization. The move means Orlando will become the headquarters for a newly created group that includes global mission logistics, engineering support services and wireless tracking systems, among other operations. (Read more)

Waymon Armstrong, the owner of a small business that uses computer simulations to help government and private sector clients prepare for and respond to natural disasters, medical emergencies and combat, was today named National Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration. (Read more)

Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Orlando high-tech training division has won a contract potentially worth $105 million to build next-generation test equipment for the U.S. Navy's worldwide fleet of aircraft. (Read more)

The testing and production of the U.S. Air Force's new drones will be built by Boeing at Cecil Field. The contract should add 40 jobs to Boeing's Cecil facility by Spring 2011. (Read more)

Palm Beach Gardens-based Sonavision, which makes an ultrasound fingerprint sensor that uses less power than others, has raised $5.87 million. (Read more)