USCIS Awards PAE $292M for Application Support Centers
PAE has received a potential $291.7 million contract from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to help support and manage Application Support Centers, which the agency uses to collect applicant biometrics and identity data for processing for immigration benefits such as green cards, student visas, asylum, and refugee status. PAE was the incumbent for the work through its acquisition in 2015 of the Global Security and Solutions business unit from US Investigations Services.
DISA Awards ManTech Extension for Network Integration Testbed Cybersecurity
ManTech International [MANT] won a four month task order to continue providing Network Integration Testbed Cybersecurity Sustainment to the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Joint Interoperability Test Command. The value of the award was redacted. Under the contract, ManTech will sustain critical Defense Department Defense Information Network systems and support comprehensive security assessments.
DHS Awards Extension to Sevatec to Continue Supporting HSIN
Sevatec has received a six-month contract extension from the Department of Homeland Security to continue supporting the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN), which the department uses to share terrorism-related information with its federal, state, local, territorial, tribal, international and private sector partners. The HSIN platform enables users to work together to perform investigations, identify terrorist activities, respond to areas affected by natural disasters, and provide coordination during recovery operations. The value of the extension was redacted in an award notice. DHS plans to release a solicitation in April to recompete the requirement and award a contract in the June-July timeframe.
Aptim, Jacobs on FEMA Assistance Contract
The Department of Homeland Security has awarded contracts to Aptim Federal Services and Jacobs Engineering Group [JEC] to provide various services to assist in disaster response. The potential value of Aptim’s award is $7.1 million and the ceiling on Jacobs’ is $7 million. The contract to Jacobs was awarded to CH2M, which Jacobs acquired last December.
Triple Canopy Nabs Potential $99M Guard Services Contract
The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service has awarded Triple Canopy Inc. a potential $99.2 million contract to provide armed protective officer services at various locations around South Florida. The award has a base year, four one-year options, and one six-month option.
Northrop Grumman Receives $4M to Support Coast Guard C-27J Aircraft
The Coast Guard has awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a potential $3.7 million contract for spare radar equipment in support of the service’s C-27J Spartan medium-range surveillance aircraft. The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract has a base-year and an option year.
Unisys Nabs Australian Border Security Contract
Unisys [UIS] says has won a competitive $35 million contract from Australia’s Department of Home Affairs to design and install an Enterprise Biometric Identification Services (EBIS) system for matching facial images and fingerprints of people seeking to travel to the country against biometric watchlists to identify people of interest for security and law enforcement concerns. The EBIS system will replace a current biometrics matching system that Unisys has been providing for the last 12 years. The company says the new system is designed to support expected growth in visa and citizenship applications, and border clearance over the next decade. Unisys says it will use biometric matching algorithms supplied by IDEMIA.
DTRA Awards Peraton $10M to Develop Database for Nuke Weapon Effects
Peraton has received a potential five-year $9.5 million follow-on task order from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to continue developing the Enhanced Nuclear Weapons Effects Database System (eNWEDS), which is a “set of relational databases, interpolation routines, middleware and software interfaces used to predict ideal and simple non-ideal nuclear weapon environments,” the agency says. The eNWEDS replaces several legacy standalone nuclear environments databases.