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Homeland Security

Contract Awards

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, July 7th, 2020

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Contract Awards

Leidos Nabs $960 Million CBP Award for Traveler Processing and Vetting Software Leidos [LDOS] has received a potential five-year, $960 million award from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to supply software and specialized equipment for the processing and vetting of travelers. Leidos will provide software development life-cycle services in support of border security and travel and also kiosks, work station, facial recognition and fingerprint capture devices, document readers and telecommunications equipment for traveler enrollment and processing. Some of these services…

Senators Push Navy Against Single Destroyer Request In FY ’27

The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and the two senators from Maine last week pushed back on Navy officials for only requesting one Arleigh Burke-class destroyer (DDG-51) […]

Navy Looks To Eventually Assemble Battleship At HII Newport News; Faces More Dem Opposition

The Navy told lawmakers this week it found a dry dock at HII’s [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding shipyard it thinks can use for final assembly of the new Trump-class battleship […]

Navy Leaders Downplay Looking At Foreign Navy Shipbuilding Amid Lawmaker Objections

The Navy’s top leaders this week seemed to downplay and back down on the service potentially using foreign shipyards to build U.S. Navy ships or buying foreign designed warships overseas […]

Army

Senate Defense Appropriators See ‘Risk’ With Army’s Reconciliation Plan To Fund Munitions Increase

The Senate’s top defense appropriators cited concern this week with the Army’s request to fund the majority of its large increase to munitions procurement in fiscal year 2027 through the […]