Contracts, etc.

AAI Corp. of Hunt Valley won $533,356 from the Navy for advanced boresight equipment upgrade.

Beretta USA Corp. of Accokeek won $78,018 from the Army for guns.

Federal Resources Supply Co. of Chester won $180,719 from the Navy for pumps and compressors.

Northrop Grumman Systems Co. of Sykesville won $57,600 from the Navy for electric wire and power and distribution equipment.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. of Linthicum Heights won up to $5 million from the Air Force for research and development.

Turnbull Enterprises Inc. of Baltimore won $47,292 from the Defense Logistics Agency for ship and marine equipment.

TW & Co. of Lanham won $8.86 million from the Air Force for certified armed security guard services.

Source: Targeted News Service

DEALS

Bonnie Heneson Communications of Owings Mills was selected by Hannah More School of Reisterstown as its public relations agency of record.

Williams Scotsman of Baltimore acquired about 330 mobile office and storage units from General Modular Corp. of Fort Worth, Texas. They will be added to Williams Scotsman’s Dallas-Fort Worth branch.

Smiths Detection of Edgewood won a $23.8 million contract option to supply the Department of Defense with lightweight detectors under its Joint Chemical Agent Detector program.

Widearea Systems of Frederick acquired the operating assets of Magicsoft of Herndon, Va., which provides multipoint video conferencing technology.

AAI Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of AAI Corp. of Hunt Valley, won a $12.6 million from Boeing Co. to provide an additional landing gear trainer in support of Air Force F-22 Raptor combat aircraft.

Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego plans to acquire SM Consulting Inc. of Linthicum, which provides services in language, intelligence, information technology, management consulting, business process outsourcing, training, and logistics to governments and private industry. SM Consulting, which will join SAIC’s unit in Reston, Va., has more than 460 employees and offices in Linthicum, Reston and other U.S. locations.

Chemical company W.R. Grace & Co. of Columbia has invested in Ceratech Inc. of Baltimore, which has developed environmentally friendly technologies for producing high-strength, fast-setting concrete primarily using fly ash, a waste product from coal-fired power plants, according to a Grace statement.

Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software of Lanham and Oracle were selected by the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, to create more reader-friendly utility documents.

PROPERTY

Modern Magic Hotel LLC, a joint venture of LaSalle Hotel Properties of Bethesda and Oxford OG Hospitality Chicago LLC, acquired from Prime Group Realty Trust floors 2 through 13 and a portion of the first floor of the 52-story IBM Building in downtown Chicago for $46.0 million. The venture plans to convert the existing vacant floors, totaling about 375,000 square feet, to a luxury hotel. LaSalle Hotel Properties holds a 95 percent controlling interest in Modern Magic Hotel.

BANKRUPTCIES

Mile4 Automotive Inc.

Waldorf

Case - 08-13622

Filed 3⁄15⁄2008

Attorney

Charles C. Iweanoge

202-347-7026

Assets: $500,001 to $1 million

Debts: $500,001 to $1 million

No. of creditors: 1-49

Source: U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland, Greenbelt