The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has awarded Atlas Research, LLC a potential six-month $5.4 million task order to continue providing human resources program expertise to the Chief Human Capital Officer. The extension gives CISA time to recompete the task order, which has been delayed. The award was made under the Consolidating Hiring Operations and Personnel Services effort.
IDEMIA says it recently delivered its 2,000
th credential authentication technology (CAT) unit to the Transportation Security Administration. TSA uses CAT devices to verify the authenticity of traveler’s government issued credentials. CAT production began in 2019.
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate has awarded $1.1 million to seven federal laboratories for work to supports DHS missions and homeland security stakeholders. The awards were made under S&T’s Commercialization Accelerator Program that seeks to identify groundbreaking technologies that demonstrate “great potential for commercialization.” DHS says that over the next one to two years it expects award recipients will establish technology transfer agreements with private industry to enable new products and services while completed the research, development, testing and evaluation of technologies. The awardees and their commercialization efforts are: Argonne National Laboratory, Autonomous Intelligent Cyber-Defense Agent; Idaho National Laboratory, Plug-N-Play Appliance for Resilient Response of Operational Technologies, and Wireless Radio Frequency Signal Identification & Protocol Reverse Engineering; Los Alamos National Laboratory: Industrial Internet of Things—Physics-Informed AI Vibe Sensor for Condition Monitoring and Cybersecurity; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory: Grid Resilience & Intelligence Platform 2.0; Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Laboratory: Out of Band Over Existing Industrial Control Communications; U.S. Naval Research Laboratory: Portable Electrochemical Sensor & Test Kit for Explosive & Gunshot Residue; and National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory: Artificial Intelligence Bug Finder.
Customs and Border Protection will award Four Points Technology a potential three-month task order to continue providing Amazon Web Services for cloud computing services, infrastructure-as-a-service, software-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service. The award provides time to resolve a protest. Four Points is the incumbent.