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Briefing

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, July 7th, 2020

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Briefing

Sierra Nevada Corp. has received a potential six-month contract from the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to continue providing operations and maintenance support services for the Chemical Security Assessment Tool (CSAT), a java-based software code written by the company that is integrated into the Chemical Security Evaluation and Compliance System. The value of the award, which has a three-month base period and three one-month options, was redacted. DHS plans to conduct a competition to acquire a…

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