DTRA Awards SAIC Potential $100M for Logistics Support
The Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has awarded Science Applications International Corp. [SAI] a potential five-year, $100 million contract to provide integrated logistics services for worldwide Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) operations. The contract has a three-year base period and two one-year options. SAIC will provide procurement, shipping, warehousing, international travel support, and program support for CTR operations.
DHS Biometrics Office Awards Accenture $30M for OBIM Improvements
Accenture [ACN] has received a nine-month, $30 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM) to make a series of data sharing and infrastructure improvements for OBIM, which was previously known as the US-VISIT program. Under the contract, Accenture, which has been the prime contractor on OBIM since its inception in 2004, will expand international data-sharing capabilities, improve sharing between the FBI’s Next Generation Identification system and the Defense Department’s Automated Biometric Identification System, and expand the use of secure web services for all stakeholders, making it easier and more cost effective to access existing OBIM data. The backbone of OBIM is the IDENT biometrics database watchlist, which consists largely of fingerprint records which DHS agencies such as Customs and Border Protection and the Coast Guard use to verify if foreign nationals may be attempting to enter the U.S. legally or illegally. The IDENT records are also searched by certain foreign governments to ensure their citizens departing from their countries may legally enter the U.S. The upgrades are in operational testing right now and in some cases with foreign countries, depending on their laws, searches against IDENT will shorten from hours to real-time, Rocky Thurston, leader of Accenture’s work with DHS, tells HSR. The web services improvements being made under the contract will ensure that OBIM stakeholders maintain, and even improve, the connectivity and interoperability they need as they modernize their own infrastructures, he says. IDENT has more than 150 million stored records and processes more than 300,000 encounters a day with an average response time for users less than 10 seconds.
Xerox Nabs U.S. CIS Contract for Records Digitization
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has awarded Xerox [XRX] a three-year, $16 million contract to provide records digitization services. The company will scan and digitize immigration records producing more than 25 million images a year. The digitized records will be transferred from into the federal government’s Enterprise Document Management System and be used for a variety of immigration purposes. Xerox is renovating a vacant facility in Barbourville, Ky., to be compliant with National Archives and Records Administration facility standards for temporary records storage facilities. The new facility is slated to open before the end of 2013.
DHS Awards Small Business Contracts Under EAGLE II
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded 12 contracts under the small business track for Functional Category 1 of the EAGLE II procurement. Functional Category 1 covers a full range of services and solutions in support of developing, implementing and maintaining technology to support the DHS mission and business functions across the entire lifecycle of a program. The EAGLE II program has a maximum contract value over seven years for all the functional categories. The 12 small business awardees are: Acuity, Inc.; ViaTech Systems, Inc.; Dev Technology Group, Inc.; Citizant, Inc.; Tangible Software, Inc.; BlueWater Technology Solutions, Inc.; Applied Computing Technologies, Inc.; DKW Communications, Inc.; Global InfoTek, Inc.; 360 IT Integrated Solutions, RLLP; SaiTech, Inc.; and Pyramid Systems, Inc. DHS also awarded an additional contract for Functional Category 1 under the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Track: EDC Consulting, LLC.
Kratos Receives $4M Expansion of Public Safety and Security Contract
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions [KTOS] says its Public Safety & Security Solutions division has received a $3.5 million contract from an existing mass transit customer for the expansion of a current contract. The new award includes specialized video surveillance equipment and analytics technology that will be integrated into a command and control network infrastructure. The recent award increases the total value of the contract to $20 million. The customer was not disclosed.
GEO Group Nabs ICE Contract for Immigration Transfer Center
The GEO Group says that it has been awarded a potential five-year contract worth up to $8.5 million annually to develop and manage a company-owned 400-bed immigration transfer center in Louisiana. “This important project will play an important role in helping meet the need for federal detention bed space in the Southeaster United States,” says George Zoley, chairman and CEO of the GEO Group. The company is investing $20 million of its own funds to create the facility.