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Booz Allen Nabs $1 Billion Cyber Security Task Order To Protect Federal Agencies

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, August 21st, 2018

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Booz Allen Nabs $1 Billion Cyber Security Task Order To Protect Federal Agencies

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Booz Allen Hamilton [BAH] has been awarded a potential $1 billion task order by the Department of Homeland Security for to provide cyber security tools to six federal agencies, the second award the company has received this year under a government-wide program to help protect federal networks from cyber threats.The new task order, which has a base year and five one-year options, is for Group D of the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Dynamic and Evolving Federal Enterprise Network Defense…

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