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Homeland Security

IBM Nabs Potential $1B TSA IT Award

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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

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IBM [IBM] won a $98.5 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) under a potential five-year, $1 billion award to improve information sharing within the agency. The contract was awarded to meet the Operational Applications Support and Information Services requirement under the Department of Homeland Security's EAGLE program, which is a DHS-wide acquisition program established for the purchase of information technology (IT) services. IBM says the goal of the program is to hasten the distribution of critical information throughout…

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