HID Global Nabs $88M Contract for Green Cards
HID Global says it has won a new five-year $88.3 million contract from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to help redesign and continue manufacturing the U.S. government’s Permanent Resident Card, better known as the Green Card. The contract is the company’s largest to date with the government and expands production to include the manufacture and supply of additional government documents that will be enhanced with RFID technology for improved fraud protection. The additional documents are the Employment Authorization Documents, which HID Global hadn’t provided previously. “We are proud of our long-standing relationship with the U.S. government and are committed to delivering a new generation of the U.S. Green Card along with new high-security employment documents for them in the years to come,” says Rob Haslam, vice president of Government ID Solution with HID Global. “This contract award proves anew that HID Global has been and will continue to be the country’s preeminent supplier of secure government ID document solutions through four successive generations of U.S. Green Cards and beyond.” HID, part of ASSA ABLOY Group, will deliver 34 million identity cards over the next five years.
DHS Awards National Police Ammunition $10M for Training Ammo
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Law Enforcement Training Center has awarded a potential $10.3 million contract to National Police Ammunition to provide reduced hazard training ammunition, which must be free of lead and lead styphnate. The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity award has a one-year base period and four one-year options. DHS says it will award multiple contracts under the ID/IQ award. Other bidders that made it into Step 2 of the competition include Olin Corp., Remington Arms Company, Vista Outdoors, International Cartridge Corp., and Ruag Ammotec USA.
DHS S&T Awards $8M in Cyber Research Contracts
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate has awarded five contracts totaling $7.8 million for research on technologies to help defense against attacks on cyber physical systems. The awardees and their amounts are: HRL Laboratories, LLC, $2.5 million; Medical Device Innovation, Safety and Security Consortium of The Bronx, $1.8 million; New York Univ., $1.4; Univ. of Michigan, $1.2 million; and Kansas State Univ., $900,000. The awards are part of S&T’s Cyber Security Division’s Cyber Physical Systems Security program (CPSSEC). Cyber physical systems devices range from the smart power grid to the Internet of Things and S&T says that “Design choices made today will directly impact the nation’s industries and critical infrastructure sectors over the next several decades. The research contracts will be focused on automotive security, building control systems, and medical device security. “This interconnectivity brings significant conveniences but also introduces new cyber threats,” says Dan Massey, CPSSEC program manager. “The goal of the CPSSEC program is to ensure secure designs become an operational requirement.”