The Army has awarded three companies contracts worth approximately $12 million each for the Ground Soldier Ensemble program, setting up a technology-development stage in which the winners will compete for what could be billions of dollars in production deals. The three companies, General Dynamics C4 Systems, Raytheon and Rockwell Collins, were awarded the 21-month "cost plus fixed fee contracts" on April 15, according to a notice on TACOM Life Cycle Management Command's Web site. General Dynamics won a deal worth...