The Coast Guard has awarded Parroco Production Group a $1.5 million contract to provide handheld multimodal biometric readers and related support services for use by Coast Guard field units. The award was a small business set aside. The service has a requirement for 250 readers to replace readers that are beyond their service life.

WidePoint Corp. [WYY] says it has received four follow-on contract awards worth more than $770,000 from federal customers for identity management services, including certificate issuance and credentialing. The work includes providing PIV-I credentials.

The Government Publishing Office says it plans to award a sole-source contract to Gemalto for Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 Personal Identity Verification cards. The expected award value wasn’t disclosed.

The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate has awarded Deloitte a $340,000 contract bridge to continue providing horizon scanning analyses, which leverage a suite of methods to synthesize a broad range of emerging and or future issues, trends, threats and opportunities related to the technical, economic, social, or ecological environment of the Homeland Security Enterprise. Results of these analyses and assessment will increase awareness across DHS and will inform investments in HSE capabilities to better deal with future opportunities, uncertainty and complexity.