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Briefing

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, April 13th, 2021

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Briefing

Steampunk, Inc. has received a potential $4.5 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate to provide administrative, technical and management support to the directorate’s Office of the Chief Information Officer related to information assurance. The one-year contract has a three-month base worth $2.3 million. DHS expects to award a new information assurance engineering support task order by June. DroneShield says it has received an initial order for its drone security technology from a “high profile”…

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