
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) last Thursday rejected a protest by Leidos [LDOS] of a contract awarded late last September to Northrop Grumman [NOC] to build out a new multimodal biometric database and identity management system for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).The GAO’s decision frees up DHS to lift a stop work order issued to Northrop Grumman in October after the protest was filed.In addition to Leidos, CSRA Inc. [CSRA] also lost out on the bid for the Homeland…