• Sauer Inc. has been awarded a $6.5 million contract from NASA to perform construction renovation services on the B2 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The Jacksonville-based construction company expects to break ground on the aerospace project in late spring and complete the project in about 10 months.
• To honor its 50th Anniversary, the Jacksonville Port Authority will offer public bus tours of its largest cargo terminal throughout the year. The terminals are generally off limits, but the public can see them at 9:45 a.m. Friday. All participants must pre-register at jaxport.com/jaxport50/tours/.
• The North Florida Transportation Planning Organization has updated its annual transportation improvement plan and seeks resident input in its four-county region. The plan is a multiyear program of transportation project improvements. Those interested can provide comments at the organization's northfloridatpo.com website or by attending a public meeting 6-7 p.m. May 29 at the organization's 1022 Prudential Drive office. The deadline to respond is May 31.
• Beverly Carmichael has been appointed vice president of institutional advancement at Flagler College in St. Augustine. Carmichael has served as assistant chancellor for university advancement at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay since July 2010. She begins the position Aug. 1.
• Gov. Rick Scott has appointed Douglas Burnett to the governing board of the St. Johns River Water Management District. Burnett, of St. Augustine, is a retired major general in the U.S. Air Force Florida Air National Guard. He succeeds Richard Hamann and is appointed for a term that began Tuesday and ends March 1, 2017.
• Scott also appointed John David Hawthorne Jr. to the Florida Housing Finance Corp. Hawthorne, of St. Augustine, is executive director of the Highlands County Habitat for Humanity and a retired lieutenant colonel with the U.S. Army. He succeeds Clifford Hardy for a term that began Tuesday and ends Nov. 13, 2016.
• A news conference at 2 p.m. today is scheduled to announce details about the return of professional boxing to Jacksonville. According to ESPN's website, the matches will be June 28 at the Arena and feature boxers Gregorza Proska versus Sergio Mora, 10 rounds at the middleweight division, and Patrick Texeira versus a fighter to be announced, 10 rounds in the junior middleweight division. ESPN's "Friday Night Fights" will broadcast the matches.
• University of North Florida alumnus Jack Bisase was awarded the 2013 Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The foundation supports the preparation of future Foreign Service officers. Bisase, a 2011 UNF graduate, is among 40 candidates as members of the U.S. diplomatic corps. The foundation develops men and women whose academic and professional backgrounds fit the skill needs of the State Department for representing American interests abroad.
• Southeast Toyota Distributors announced seven senior-level promotions Tuesday, including two Jacksonville positions. Al Green will become vice president of vehicle processing and relocate from the company's Deerfield Beach headquarters to Jacksonville. Andy Eccher will return to Deerfield Beach from Jacksonville as vice president of distribution and accessories. The company is the world's largest distributor of Toyotas and Scions and distributes vehicles and parts to 175 Toyota dealerships in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Its vehicle processing facilities are in Jacksonville.
• CH2M Hill and City Council member Reggie Brown will award bicycles and helmets to nine students from Susie E. Tolbert Elementary School at 12:30 p.m. Thursday at the school as part of CH2M's "Bikes-n-Bytes" program. The company, an employee-owned consulting, design, construction and operations firm, offers the annual community outreach program as a reinforcement for good behavior and academic achievement. Since its inception in 2001, the program has provided more than 540 bikes and 80 computers to local schools and organizations that serve at-risk children and families.