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Homeland Security

Briefing

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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

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*The Transportation Security Administration plans to renew a software license, upgrades and maintenance with Axeda Corp. under a potential five-year, $2.5 million contract. The base year value of the award is $740,515. The award is being made under the Security Technology Integration Program which allows TSA to connect over 15,000 pieces of transportation security equipment to one, centralized computer network. *The Defense Information Systems Agency has selected Raytheon's [RTN] insider threat management solution as the Insider Threat Focused Observation Tool…

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