The engineering services firm Parsons has received two competitive task orders worth a potential $44 million from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to provide integrated border security solutions for the governments of Lebanon and Georgia.
The Lebanon Border Security Project contract value is $16.2 million and Parsons has received $9.1 million for the Georgia Land Border Project, which contains options for a maximum value of $27.7 million, DTRA tells HSR.
Under the project for Lebanon, Parsons will help the Lebanese government better secure its 233-mile border with Syria. Work will include network integration of border-security surveillance equipment, procurement of new equipment, and training on equipment and with operating concepts to enhance command and control capabilities, communications, surveillance, detection of weapons of mass destruction, and interdiction.
For Georgia, the project there will initially focus on that country’s border with Armenia, with later expansion to its borders with Turkey and Azerbaijan. This project will include delivery of surveillance equipment, integration, training, renovation and construction of border facilities, and development of a sustainment program.
DTRA awarded the work under its Cooperative Threat Reduction Integrating Contract (CTRIC) II contract. Parsons says it has done similar border security work for DTRA in the past and has done this type of work for United States Customs and Border Protection. The company also says that it has “successfully executed projects” under the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program in Russia, Armenia, Libya, and more recently in Jordan and Syria.
The agency has awarded similar task orders to Raytheon [RTN] under CTRIC to help secure Jordan’s borders to integrate various surveillance technologies.