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TSA Awards Leidos Support Contract; Rapiscan Nabs Winner-Take-All X-Ray Award

Defense Daily Staff

Monday, September 30th, 2013

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) last week 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 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…

Congress

Munitions Fired Represent Most of $25 Billion Spent By Pentagon on Iran War So Far

Munitions fired in the two-month old “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran represent most of the $25 billion cost the Pentagon has incurred thus far in the conflict, the acting Defense […]

Congress

Slotkin: Pentagon Should Use Anthropic’s Mythos To Spot Cyber Security Gaps

The Pentagon should be using Anthropic‘s recently announced Mythos artificial intelligence model to spot gaps in cyber security, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said on Tuesda. “I think the thing that […]

Budd And Shaheen Bill Would Authorize 329 F-15EX Fighters

Two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), have introduced the Airpower Acceleration Act, which would authorize multi-year procurements of […]

Congress

HASC’s Wittman Sees ‘Challenging’ Push For $350B In Reconciliation Funds, Wants Sustained Defense Increase

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.– Congress’ work to pass $350 billion in reconciliation funds to support the Trump administration’s push for a $1.5 trillion fiscal year 2027 defense topline is “going to […]