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By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, November 13th, 2018

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TSA Issues Draft BPA for FAST TeamsThe Transportation Security Administration has issued a draft Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) for the Flexible Agile Scalable Teams (FAST), which is aimed at providing full-service, enterprise-focused applications development capabilities where information technology (IT) services are delivered through state-of-the art, service-enabled IT software systems and dynamic computing environments. Using the BPA, the TSA Office of Information Technology will provide portable, reusable, and interoperable business-driven solutions to support the agency’s mission. TSA says to achieve integration…

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