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 venues, providing biometric and biographic-based vetting to help expedite members to the front of security lines. Telos provides a wide range of services and solutions, including cyber security, enterprise security, and identity management. The company provides TSA-approved background check services for airport workers at a number of U.S. airports. IDEMIA offers PreCheck enrollment under the IdentGO brand. Expansion of the enrollment services program was directed by Congress in late 2018 under the TSA Modernization Act, which was included in a bill reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration. The new law requires at least two private sector entities to be used to provide PreCheck enrollment services to travelers that voluntarily apply for the services. Enrollment operations with the new vendors are expected to begin later this year once TSA. The agency still needs to ensure the companies’ systems meet cyber security requirements before customers can begin enrolling.

U.S., Israeli Foundation Awards Homeland Security Grants

The Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation has awarded grants to three joint projects in the areas of drones, video analytics and in-door navigation. The three projects include development of a multi-mission, multi-type homeland security drone command and control capability by Israel’s Blue White Robotics and New York-based Easy Aerial, development of an indoor positioning wearable for first responders by Israel’s S.H. Goren Management and New York-based 3AM Innovations, a development of a fully turnkey artificial intelligence-based video analytics security solution for remote sites by Israel’s Cawamo and Utah-based LiveView Technologies. The BIRD Foundation is providing $2.3 million for the projects, which will also receive $1.5 million in private sector funding. The program is jointly funded by the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology branch and Israel’s Ministry of Public Security.

Blackstone, Booz Allen, Sevatec, TechFlow Selected for DHS ADaPTS Award

The Department of Homeland Security Office of the Chief Information Officer has selected four companies to provide professional information technology services under the $265 million Architecture, Development, and Platform Technical Services (ADaPTS) Blanket Purchase Agreement. The awardees are Blackstone Technology Group, Booz Allen Hamilton [BAH], Sevatec, and TechFlow. Under ADaPTS, the DHS OCIO will obtain contractor support services in support of digital transformation to include cloud-based enterprise shared services, modernizing and migrating applications to infrastructure as a service, software as a service, and platform as a service environment, and accelerating delivery of new mission capabilities through automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning.