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By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, January 21st, 2020

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Contract Awards

TSA PreCheck enrollment center. Photo: TSA

TSA Selects Three Vendors to Provide PreCheck Enrollment Services The Transportation Security Administration this month said it has selected three companies to provide enrollment services for it PreCheck trusted traveler program in an effort to expand outreach to potential users of the program. The awards were made to Alclear LLC, Telos Identity Management Solutions, and France-based IDEMIA’s U.S. business, which is the sole incumbent for the work. Alclear provides the CLEAR service at a number of U.S. airports and other…

Unmanned Systems

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Pentagon

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Congress

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Congress

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