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IBM, BAE Protest TIM Award; TSA Aims Consolidate Credentialing, Threat Assessment Efforts

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

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After several years of operating multiple credentialing programs for select transportation workers and disparate information technology infrastructures used to vet these people and others requiring a threat assessment, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has awarded two contracts recently to set it on a path of consolidating the front and backend systems for these various programs. Earlier this month the agency awarded Accenture [ACN] a potential five-year, $250 million contract for the Transportation Threat Assessment and Credentialing (TTAC) Infrastructure Modernization (TIM)…

HII Executive Outlines Its Shipbuilding Acceleration Strategy

An HII [HII] shipbuilding executive last week told lawmakers how the company plans to improve and accelerate shipbuilding throughout via workforce improvements, adding new shipbuilding infrastructure and reinforcing distributed shipbuilding […]

Congress

House Sends Dec. 11 CR With Ship Construction Funds To Trump’s Desk For Final Signature

The House on Tuesday passed a stopgap funding bill to keep the government open through Dec. 11, sending the temporary funding measure that also includes funds to support ongoing shipbuilding […]

Missile Defense

Guetlein On Golden Dome: ‘We Cannot Protect This Nation And Bankrupt It At The Same Time’

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Missile Defense

Interview with Rep. Jeff Crank (R-Colo.), co-chair of the Golden Dome Caucus

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