Serco has been awarded one of three places on a new $199 million contract to support the American navy and Marine Corps with air traffic control engineering and technical support services.

Serco will now have the opportunity to bid on task orders to provide these services; they will deliver specialised technical and integration support, configuration data management and systems maintenance for an extremely broad range of complex systems, from reconnaissance to oceanography.

This contract award comes shortly after Serco reported a post-tax loss of £92 million for the first half of 2015. Despite this loss, the results suggest that Serco could be on the verge of stabilising after a tumultuous 2014, and the group’s latest win certainly offers further cause for optimism.

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