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• MeteorComm™ obtained a contract from the Association of American Railroads' Transportation Technology Center Inc. to provide a Higher Performance Data Radio (HPDR) system. The Federal Railroad Administration is funding the HPDR project as part of an effort to deploy positive train control. HPDR will feature a radio that can integrate voice and digital data. MeteorComm will provide a Software Defined Radio and MBNet™ network protocol for a HPDR system that TTCI will begin testing later this year. Testing will continue through 2009.

• Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. obtained a three-year contract from CSX Transportation to provide general engineering services on a task-order basis. As CSXT's primary consultant, Jacobs will provide railroad design engineering, construction engineering and inspection services. Design engineering work will include track, civil, bridge, facilities, electrical, signal and environmental services.

• VTG Aktiengesellschaft reached an agreement to acquire all the assets of the Graaff Group's rail-car manufacturing segment in Elze, Germany. The deal must be approved by Germany's anti-trust agency. The Graaff Group, which builds chemical tank cars featuring stainless steel tanks, filed for insolvency in March because of difficulties in handling a large order and tight liquidity. VTG would take over the insolvency estate's assets and continue producing tank cars, particularly chemical tank cars.

• Third-party logistics (3PL) provider BNSF Logistics L.L.C. has landed on Inbound Logistics magazine's annual Top 10 Providers of 3PL Excellence list for the fifth consecutive year. The magazine polls more than 5,000 readers to compile the list. About 325 companies received votes.

• Smiths Detection has provided Amtrak additional SABRE 4000 advanced explosives-detection systems to screen passengers, trains and stations. The handheld systems are designed to detect and identify explosives, narcotics, chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals. Amtrak will continue to use only the device' explosives-detection capabilities.

• Cubic Corp. has promoted Walt Bonneau Jr. from senior vice president of subsidiary Cubic Transportation Systems to SVP and group general manager for the corporation. He will oversee the company's involvement in transit security and public transit business. Bonneau has served Cubic for 10 years in various senior management positions.