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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)…

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