After being awarded nearly $83 million for Task Order 2D of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’ Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program, Booz Allen Hamilton [BAH] said Wednesday this covers six federal agencies.
Under CDM Task Order 2D, the company covers the Department of Health and Human Services, Treasury Department, General Services Administration (GSA), NASA, Social Security Administration, and the U.S. Postal Services.
The CDM program is meant to fix problems within the network perimeters of federal agencies in near-real-time. Compared to DHS’ EINSTEIN program guarding the perimeter of an agency network like a gateway and perimeter scanners, the CDM program monitors within a network for vulnerabilities and suspicious behavior once a bad actor may have breached the perimeter.
The Booz Allen Hamilton award was originally announced by DHS last month (Defense Daily, Sept. 22) along with Task Orders 2C and 2E, with Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Hewlett Packard [HP], respectively.
This set of task order awards complete phase 1 awards of the CDM program, making the program available to 97 percent of the federal civilian government.
“The award of this second CDM Task Order is a testament to the vision and expertise of Booz Allen’s Cyber team. Our deep technical knowledge and history in the cyber security world position us well to meet the requirements that DHS and FEDSIM have laid out for implementing CDM,” Thad Allen, an executive vice president at Booz Allen, said in a statement.
“Our approach with this work, as with our other CDM work, is to use a common set of processes and tools, and deploy and calibrate them to meet each Agencies’ unique mission and needs,” Rob Allegar, principal at Booz Allen and the solutions architect for the task order, said.
“The biggest focus is getting the right systems in place that give these Agencies visibility into the vulnerabilities and threat-actor activity occurring in their environments. With this data at their fingertips, they can take action to protect against current threats. It also lays the foundation to enable agencies to eventually use collective intelligence to help predict where future threats may originate,” Allegar added.
Combining both Task Order 2D and an earlier order, 2B, the company is contracted to help 13 agencies implement CDM systems and capabilities. These combined orders have a total contract value of up to $120 million over the next three years.