Aerient, LLC has received a six-month, $1.6 million task order from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Cyber Security & Communications to provide operation and maintenance support for critical systems supporting the Top Secret level/sensitive compartmented information access floor and the unclassified support cell. The award was made the EAGLE contract and the work is for the National Cyber Security and Communications Integration Center, which is a 24 x 7 cyber watch center.
The Department of Homeland Security
Science and Technology Directorate is awarding Mitre Corp. an extension to its existing indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to operate the Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute. The $442.6 million contract ceiling will not be changed as a result of the extension, the value of which was not disclosed. The extension will allow DHS components to fund orders for technical systems and engineering and integration work through Sept. 3. The HSSEDI is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center.
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command is increasing by $1.4 million ceiling value of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s contract with Apogee Research, LLC, for the Vetting Commodity Information Technology Software and Firmware (VET) program. Apogee leads the Adversarial Challenge events and experimental scenarios and provides results both to the performers and to DARPA. Apogee applies its knowledge of experimentation methodology and background in the areas of cyber security testing and embedded systems that will provide the VET program with a set of useful experiments for each performer and will result in the best value and understanding of the advancement of technologies for DARPA and the VET program.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has awarded IDEO, LLC a five-month $508,289 contract to provide design interaction support for the myUSCIS portal, which is an element of the digital customer service experience of the agency’s customer service delivery model. The design support will result in deployable designs that will support USCIS customers with a relationship to more than one applicant such as attorneys, non-profit organizations, families and employers.