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Leidos Protests DHS Biometric Database Award To Northrop Grumman

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, October 12th, 2017

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Leidos [LDOS] this week filed a protest with the government over the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) selection in late September of Northrop Grumman [NOC] to develop a new multimodal biometric database.Leidos filed its protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Oct. 10 and the agency has until Jan. 18, 2018 to render a decision. In the meantime, DHS has issued a stop work order to Northrop Grumman pending the outcome of GAO’s review.A spokesman for Leidos declined comment…

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