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GD Beats L-1 To Produce State Department’s New Passport Card

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Thursday, January 17th, 2008

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The State Department recently awarded General Dynamics [GD] a potential $72.7 million contract to produce its new border travel document, the PASS Card, beating L-1 Identity Solutions [ID]. The win for GD continues a spate of recent homeland security-related awards for the company's Information Technology business unit, which last week garnered a potential $28.8 million contract from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service, the arm of the Department of Homeland Security charged with administering immigration and naturalization functions. That…

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