The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) last month awarded Leidos [LDOS] a potential five-year, $442.5 million contract to provide integrated logistics support for checkpoint security equipment at airports nationwide.
Work under the award, which was made to the old Science Applications International Corp., will be performed by Leidos, which is being spun out of its former parent company. Leidos unseated incumbent Siemens [SI], which beat out then-incumbent Boeing [B A] for the work in 2005.
The initial increment to Leidos under the contract is $4.8 million, a TSA spokesman tells HSR.
Siemens, which is based in Germany, received about $530 million under its original award that ran through Jan. 2010. The recompeted contract was valued at $468.6 million through Feb. 2014.
Leidos will provide sustainment services to the range of equipment currently used at aviation security checkpoints, from metal detectors and body scanners to X-Ray systems, explosives trace detectors and bottled liquid scanners.
Leidos, along with the “new” SAIC [SAIC], last month were spun out of the former Science Applications International Corp.