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By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, September 9th, 2014

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TSA to Award IBM $35M for IT Support for Secure Flight The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says it expects to award IBM [IBM] a potential four-year, $34.5 million task order to provide application development and information technology (IT) support services to the Office of Intelligence and Analysis Secure Flight system. BAE Systems was the incumbent on the previous task order but TSA says it decided against exercising the option to extend the contact due to the company’s “failure to make…

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