IBM [IBM] won a $98.5 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) under a potential five-year, $1 billion award to improve information sharing within the agency. The contract was awarded to meet the Operational Applications Support and Information Services requirement under the Department of Homeland Security’s EAGLE program, which is a DHS-wide acquisition program established for the purchase of information technology (IT) services. IBM says the goal of the program is to hasten the distribution of critical information throughout TSA’s current information sharing environment, enabling users to receive information through a variety of devices such as cell phones, pagers, PDA’s and other messaging services. The project will also expand access to directories of knowledge and personnel contacts to improve interagency collaboration. IBM’s teammates include: Deloitte Consulting; Lockheed Martin [LMT]; Akamai; Arc Aspicio; Blackstone Consulting Group; Enterprise Solutions Realized; Infoglide; Intelligent Decisions; Knightfork; Microlink; Optimal Solutions and Technologies; Oracle [ORCL]; Pragmatics; Procentrix; RCM Solutions; and VIP.