Author: Jane Edwards|| Date Published: September 18, 2023
The Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection has awarded General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business a potential five-year, $99 million contract to provide communications, training, stakeholder engagement and operations and deployment support services for CBP’s trade office.
The single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will primarily support OT’s trade facilitation and enforcement initiatives and other CBP programs, according to a solicitation published in June.
Communications support, for instance, includes general, executive, end-user and multimedia communications. Training assistance covers training design, development, delivery and maintenance support and training development during Agile system development.
The ordering period under the IDIQ contract is expected to run through Sept. 14, 2028.
Melissa Bischoping, senior director of security and product design research at Tanium, said adopting agentic artificial intelligence and other autonomous…