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By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, August 8th, 2017

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Army Awards Leidos $133M for DoD ABIS SupportLeidos [LDOS] has received a potential five-year, $132.7 million contract from the Army to provide support services and enhancements to the Defense Department’s authoritative biometrics repository, unseating incumbent Northrop Grumman [NOC]. The award for the DoD Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) Sustainment Services and Service Life Extension was made as a task order under the General Services Administration’s Alliant contract. The task order establishes the requirements for a systems integrator to provide operations…

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