TSA Awards Accenture $199M for Credentialing Support
Accenture [ACN] says its Federal Services subsidiary has won a potential seven-year, $199 million contract to support and consolidate three Transportation Security Administration credentialing systems into a single platform. The work is in support of TSA’s Information Technology, Technology Solutions Division. “These three systems play a critical role in delivering credentials to approximately 30 million individuals, including TSA PreCheck customers, transportation workers, airline crews and hazmat drivers, among others,” says Anthony Pinheiro, TSA lead and managing director at Accenture Federal Services. Accenture will also provide project management, cybersecurity and operations support services.
DHS S&T Awards Auburn $24M to Canine Detection Science
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate has awarded the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine a five-year, $24 million contract to advance detection canine sciences. The award is the single largest research contract ever for the school and will support its recently established, transdisciplinary Detection Canine Sciences, Innovation, Technology and Education (DCSITE) program, which will be the primary academic resource to S&T for expertise in all areas of detection canine sciences. “Our DSCITE program will promote continual improvement and best practices for domestic production of detection canines to respond to evolving homeland security priorities,” says Frank “Skip” Bartol, College of Veterinary Medicine associate dean for research and graduate studies and DCSITE program project investigator. “It will foster technological innovation, sharpen responsiveness to emerging threats, create formal educational programs and provide a centralized hub for expertise and knowledge in the field of canine detection.”
TSA Awards Private Screening Contracts for Florida, Wyoming Airports
The Transportation Security Administration has awarded two contracts to continue private screening services at two airports, Sarasota Braden International in Florida and Jackson Hole in Wyoming. Under a potential one-year, $9.6 million contract, Virginia-based Aviation Security Management will provide security screening services for passengers and baggage at Sarasota Bradenton. The value of the potential 14-month contract with the Jackson Hole Airport Board was redacted. The awards were made under TSA’s Screening Partnership Program, which allows airports to opt-out of using federal screeners in favor of private contractors. At Sarasota Bradenton, Aviation Security Management is taking over from Trinity Technology Group, which TSA and the airport are dropping due to repeated failures to comply with contract standards, regulations and directives related to screening services. TSA says this “raises the security risk at SRQ to an untenable level, and continuing with the current contractor is not an option.” For Jackson Hole, the contract extension allows TSA to host a recompete of the contract.
DroneShield Receives First Order Under GSA Contract
DroneShield says it has received its first order for drone detection, tracking and related command and control from a U.S. government law enforcement and public safety agency under a General Services Administration contract schedule that it is part of. The award, which DroneShield described as a “public safety project,” includes multiple DroneSentry-C2 command and control systems, RfOne long-range unmanned aircraft system direction finding sensors, and RadarZero small-form factor radar. “We welcome onboard our first customer through GSA, and anticipate for this to be one of numerous U.S. deployments,” says Oleg Vornik, DroneShield’s CEO. “Purchasing via GSA is also a great indicator of increasing maturing and scale of the counter-UAS market, whereby the acquisitions move from experimental budgets to streamlined large acquisition processes.”