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Astarte Fiber Networks (Boulder, CO) received a contract to provide NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (Edwards, CA) with multimode fiberoptic photonic switching systems. . . . NASA awarded a $500,000 contract to BC¥(Melbourne, FL) for its variable-rate fiberoptic modems as part of a fiberoptic data-link upgrade. . . . Amoco Laser (Naperville, IL), a manufacturer of laser sources for the fiberoptic telecommunications systems market, named Randy Stefanovic to the position of vice president.