Leidos Nabs $960 Million CBP Award for Traveler Processing and Vetting Software
Leidos [LDOS] has received a potential five-year, $960 million award from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to supply software and specialized equipment for the processing and vetting of travelers. Leidos will provide software development life-cycle services in support of border security and travel and also kiosks, work station, facial recognition and fingerprint capture devices, document readers and telecommunications equipment for traveler enrollment and processing. Some of these services will include software management and development for CBP’s trusted traveler programs that were previously provided by Northrop Grumman
[NOC], a CBP spokesperson tells HSR. The Blanket Purchase Agreement has a one-year base period and four one-year options. Leidos also said the program supports primary and secondary traveler processing at and between U.S. ports of entry. “Leidos has a rich history with CBP, helping safeguard our ports and borders, and facilitating commerce and travel,” says Vicki Schmanske, president of Leidos’ Intelligence Group. “This BPA extends this work and draws upon Leidos’ deep capabilities in both agile software development and SecDevOps, to support CBP’s essential national security mission.”
OSI Systems Receives $60M U.S. Government Order
OSI Systems [OSIS] says its Rapiscan Systems division has received a $60 million order from a U.S. government customer to provide several platforms of its cargo inspection systems, related upgrades, integration and maintenance services. The customer wasn’t disclosed.
Sevatec Nabs $48M TSA Order to Support Air Marshals
Sevatec says it has received a potential four-year, $48 million task order from the Transportation Security Administration to service the agency’s Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service mission through agile design, development and application production requirements for a suite of mission-critical applications across the agency. The order was placed under the General Services Administration Alliant 2 Governmentwide Acquisition Contract to support Flexible Agile Scalable Teams. Sevatec says it will deliver software quality and value through a software delivery supply chain that integrates HCD, DevSecOps, cloud-based deployments, continuous cyber security, and analytics into a comprehensive framework, enhancing the user experience while managing, monitoring, securing and supporting system operations.
NTT DATA to Support DHS OIG Under $18M Award
The Department of Homeland Security has awarded NTT DATA Services Federal Government a potential five-year, $17.5 million task order to provide support to the Office of the Inspector General. Under the contract, NTT federal, a unit of NTT DATA Services, will provide help desk, network and infrastructure system administration and enterprise application support services. The new contract represents an expansion of work with DHS and the OIG for NTT DATA.
Smiths Detection to Supply High-Speed EDS for Kuwait Airport
Smiths Detection says it has received a contract to supply and install its high-speed HI-SCAN 10080 XCT explosives detection systems at Kuwait’s new international airport Terminal 2 to automatically screen checked bags for explosives. Terminal 2 is intended to become an international transit hub and will have the ability to handle 25 million passengers annually. Smiths says the EDS systems can be updated as necessary to automatically detect evolving threats. The project is being led by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Public Works and the prime contractor is Limak Insaat.
Ascent Vision X-MADIS CUAS Selected by Thailand
Ascent Vision Technologies (AVT) has received a contract from the Defence Technology Institute of Thailand for the company’s field-proven eXpeditionary Mobile Air Defense Integrated System (X-MADIS) for protecting critical assets against hostile small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS). AVT says the X-MADIS was chosen after a series of counter-sUAS demonstrations and tests. The Thai X-MADIS fixed-site system combined four all-threat air surveillance radars with a radio frequency detection sensor for reliable detection, classification and locating of commercial sUAS. A CM202U optic delivers rapid identification and tracking of an airborne object to increase the operator’s decision time when responding to a threat and an electronic warfare system neutralizes one or multiple sUAS. All the components are integrated into the company’s CUAS Suite software to enable seamless, single operation of the entire kill chain. AVT’s local business partner on the contract is GCS Group Corp.