Straub Construction awarded $46.6 million Navy contract

SAN DIEGO - Straub-Driver Construction of Fallbrook was awarded $46.6 million to build a truck operations complex at Camp Pendleton, and $17 million was awarded to Northrup Grumman Systems of San Diego for a weapons system for the MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle.

Five other San Diego County-based construction firms were awarded a contract today worth $500,000 combined to build or remodel various facilities throughout Navy Facilities Engineering Command Southwest.

I.E.-Pacific, NEI Contracting and Engineering and Dimensions Construction, all of San Diego; Bilbro Construction Co. of Esc...