The Transportation Security Administration plans to award a non-competitive contract to Accenture Federal Services to continue providing recruitment and hiring support to the Office of Human Capital. The interim contract to Accenture, which is the incumbent for the work, will give the agency time to develop a new solicitation to recompete the recruitment and hiring services. The expected value of the interim award wasn’t disclosed.
Liberty Defense
says its project with the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation has been terminated because Levitectoin, its Israeli partner in the project, has declared bankruptcy and can’t fulfil its contractual obligations in the BIRD grant. Liberty has returned all $113,000 in previously awarded funds back to the BIRD Foundation. The two companies were awarded the grant last summer to fuse Liberty’s HEXWAVE walk-through threat detection scanner with Levitection’s Q technology early warning platform.
Customs and Border Protection intends to award a sole-source contract to Sierra Nevada Corp. to modify five existing agency-owned DHC-8 aircraft. The pending award will have a base-year and four option periods. SNC is the incumbent for the work. No contract value was provided.
Australia’s DroneShield has appointed Matt McCrann as CEO of its U.S. subsidiary, DroneShield LLC. Previously, McCrann was vice president of sales for the U.S. subsidiary. “Matt has done outstanding work since joining the DroneShield team, positioning our counter-UAS, electronic warfare and ISR solutions with a wide range of high-profile defense and government agencies, while rapidly scaling our team and operations in the U.S.,” says Oleg Vornik, DroneShield’s CEO. He adds that the appointment will “enable DroneShield to support at scale our customer base in the U.S.”