Leidos Nabs DHS Secure Data Network Support Contract

Leidos [LDOS] won a potential $684 million contract from the General Services Administration (GSA) to support the Department of Homeland Security’s secure data network used to share classified information across government agencies involved in homeland security missions. Leidos unseated Northrop Grumman [NOC], which won a contract in 2004 to develop and implement the Homeland Security Data Network (HSDN). In 2011 Northrop Grumman won another contract, potentially worth $1.1 billion, to upgrade and continue operating the HSDN. Under the new Secure Enterprise Network Systems, Services and Support (SENS3) task order, awarded by GSA’s Federal Systems Integration and Management Center on behalf of DHS, Leidos will provide operations and maintenance, security, optimization, enhancement, design, engineering, architecture, integration, configuration, testing, and expansion of the HSDN and the Classified Local Area Network. The SENS3 task order has a base period and five one-year options. The award was made under the GSA Alliant contract vehicle. Leidos said that its work will include providing continual service improvement throughout the life of the task order. “We’re proud that DHS has entrusted Leidos to operate and modernize its enterprise systems to support information sharing and intelligence missions across all DHS components, including federal, state, local, and tribal partners,” says Angie Heise, Leidos Group president.

CBP Awards Unisys $151M Task Order to Support Targeting Directorate

Unisys [UIS] has received a potential one-year, $150.7 million task order from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) under the Department of Homeland Security’s EAGLE II contract to support the Targeting and Analysis Systems Program Directorate (TASPD). The new task order is a bridge while the agency conducts a competition for a new award. Under the task order, Unisys will provide operations, maintenance, upgrades, updates, modifications and enhancements to the various systems housed within TAPSD. The main system supported by TAPSD is the Automated Targeting System, which includes a number of subsystems such as the new Traveler Verification System, Vessel Management System, visa overstay, the National Targeting Center, as well the Secure Freight Initiative and other systems. An award for the new contract is expected to be made next March under the General Services Administration’s Alliant contract vehicle.

DTRA Makes Awards for New Initiatives in Nuke Detection, Monitoring and Verification

The Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) awarded 19 contracts on the area of New Initiatives for Nuclear Detection, Monitoring and Verification. The awardees, amounts and project titles are: Leidos [LDOS], $4.5 million, Autonomous Radiation Mapping and Outdoor Navigation; Georgia Tech Research Corp., $2.1 million, Multi-UAS Systems for Radiation Mapping, Source Localization, and Spectroscopy; H3D Inc., $865,246, Integrating Spatial Scene Information into 3D Position-Sensitive CZT Systems to Improve Wide Area Measurement; Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., $2.2 million, Wearable Gamma Neutron Detector; Univ. of Nebraska, $1.5 million, Low Power Signal Processing Electronics for Unattended Radiation Monitoring Sensors; SRI International, $3.9 million, Indium Phosphide Gamma Scintillator Detector Arrays; Univ. of Michigan, $4 million, High Performance 3D CdZn Te Neutron Sensitive Gamma Ray Imaging Spectrometers for Field Deployment; H3D Inc., $235,284, Quantitative Estimation Isotope Identification for Radioisotope Identification Devices; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, $460,035, Situational Awareness Roadmap; H3D Inc., $699,817, Portable CZT-Based Time Modulated Coded Aperture Imager; VAWD Applied Science and Technology Corp., $3 million, Wide Area Search Radar to Detect and Track Hostile Individuals; Southwest Research Institute, $278,452, Vehicle Training and Testing; Sandia National Laboratory, $4.9 million, PHAROS – Precise and Highly Accurate Recognition Observed in SAR; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, $6 million, Deep Multimodal Representation Learning for SNM Detection; Southwest Research Inst., $1.1 million, Vehicle Tracking with Unintended Radiation Emissions; Los Alamos National Security, LLC, $644,903, Earth Model Development by Non-PIs; Weston Geophysical Corp., $824,492, Full Wave-Form Seismic Yield Estimation: Calibration and Transportability Analyses of Small Underground Explosions Observed at Local to Regional Distances; Univ. of Rhode Island, $332,500, Yield Estimate Based on InSAR; and Southwest Research Inst., $749,470, Separation Nozzles for Concentration of Noble Gases from Air.

CBP Awards Four More Border Wall Prototype Contracts

Customs and Border Protection on Sept. 7 awarded four additional prototype contracts for border wall along the nation’s southern border, with the new awards falling under a request for “other materials” than concrete, which is the material being used in four prototype border wall contracts let on Aug. 31. Awardees under the potential $300 million “other materials” prototypes are Caddell Construction Co., KWR Construction, Inc., ELTA North America Inc., and W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Company. Caddell and W.G. Yates also received awards under the $300 million concrete wall prototypes contract. Maryland-based ELTA is part of Israel Aircraft Industries and is known for its high-tech approaches to security.

OSI Systems Receives $9M Order for Cargo and Vehicle Inspection Systems

OSI Systems [OSIS] says its Rapiscan Systems division has received a $9 million order to provide multiple platforms of cargo and vehicle inspection systems to an undisclosed customer. The company also says the order includes civil works and installation support.

DHS S&T Awards $9M for Mobile Application Security R&D Projects

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate has awarded $8.6 million in funding for five research and development (R&D) projects aimed at enhancing the secure use of mobile applications for the federal government. The Mobile Application Security projects are funded within the Cyber Security Division and are focused on continuous validation and threat protection for mobile apps and integrating security throughout the mobile app lifecycle. The recipients and awards values are: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., $1.8 million to utilize and integrate its commercial technology to demonstrate a platform on which mobile app security can be anchored in the hardware of a device; Lookout, $1.8 million to add a new app-threat, -risk, and –vulnerability detection and protection capabilities and enhance existing capabilities in its cloud-based Mobile Endpoint Security Platform; United Technologies Research Center, $1.5 million to develop and implement a mobile app security system that will be run on a hybrid mobile-device-cloud environment called COMBAT (Continuous Monitoring of Behavior to protect devices from evolving mobile Application Threats); Apcerto, Inc., $1.6 million to research and develop solutions for normalizing and rating mobile apps based on predefined standards as well as a framework for orchestrating the entire mobile app security process; Red Hat, Inc. and Kryptowire, LLC, $1.9 million to integrate security throughout the entire mobile app development lifecycle.

TSA Awards Leidos $17M for Security Technology Support

Leidos [LDOS] has received a potential $16.5 million non-competitive award from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to continue supporting the company’s reduced-size explosive detection systems used to automatically screen checked bags for explosives. The award is part of a potential $215 million contract earlier this year to all of the agency’s Transportation Security Equipment providers for continued support of their respective systems.

Navy to Acquire Face ID System from Ideal Innovations

The Naval Supply Fleet Logistics Center says it plans to acquire from Ideal Innovations Inc. their Face Matching Blackbox and Facial Automatic Biometric Identification System (FABIS) Mobile in support of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. The Navy says it is doing a sole source solicitation with I3 because their mobile facial recognition system is the only one on the market that supports template databases of up to five million on a phone and does not require a network connection to perform on scene facial recognition against millions of records. The system will allow users to capture non-ideal facial images in the field using an Android device, match the captured face image on-device against prepopulated watchlists and or transmit the face image to the remote Blackbox server for search against additional databases.

TSA Awards eGlobalTech IT Protection Contract

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Information Assurance and Cybersecurity Division has awarded eGlobalTech a contract for Information Technology Security Support Services to project and maintain the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of the agency’s IT systems. The value of the award wasn’t disclosed. The IAD division wants to maintain Federal Information Security Management Act compliance as a bi-product of security risk management. The woman-owned small business will help with risk management, security policies, and provide Information System Security Officer services and security control assessment support.