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For instance, the largest contract of the day was for $1.05 billion, for the Aerospace Corp. covering Federally Funded Research and Development Center support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second-largest contract went to American Water Military Services, a firm in Voorhees, New Jersey, to service the wastewater and water utilities at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. And they\u2019ll have that $590.7 million contract for a while: The contract is for 50 years, with the Defense Logistics Agency saying conclusion of the work is due by April 30, 2069.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Others are smaller: DARPA gave out one contract, a $10 million modification to a small prototyping project through Packet Forensics, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, for the Harnessing Autonomy for Countering Cyberadversary Systems research project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four of the contracts are tied to foreign military sales. 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