The U.S. government appears to be favoring the expansion of surveillance technology deployments along the border with the inclusion of funds for autonomous surveillance towers and other border security platforms in an omnibus budget package, The Washington Post reported Friday. On Thursday, Congress approved and sent to the White House a $1.5 trilli...
During the State of the Union address on March 1, President Biden called for tightened border security and highlighted the “cutting-edge” technology currently being deployed at ports of entry to fortify the border. “If we are to advance liberty and justice, we need to secure the border and fix the immigration system,” Biden stated. “I...
American Systems will provide independent verification and validation support services for the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection under a potential five-year, $118 million task order. The single-award task order awarded through the General Services Administration’s Alliant 2 contract calls for the company to verify a...
In the wake of the recent identification of a critical vulnerability in the Java-based Log4j software code and due to the alarming rise in cybercrime, ransomware attacks and information breaches, the U.S. government is ramping up its cybersecurity response and resilience efforts. The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday established the count...
Steve Smagin, formerly the director of business development at Triumph Enterprises, has joined Ardent Management Consulting to serve as vice president for the federal civilian business. Over the course of his three-decade career, Smagin has helped companies capture market opportunities and manage programs in areas such as information technology infr...
Peraton has received a potential four-year, $81 million task order to provide background investigation services for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The company’s team of investigators will collect information on federal applicants and employees and consolidate data into an investigation report to help the Department of Homeland Secu...
The Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection plans to issue a draft request for proposals and a formal solicitation for a cloud procurement effort in 2022. CBP is finalizing the requirements for the Enterprise Cloud and Integrated Services acquisition program meant to facilitate the migration of its information technology pl...
The Department of Homeland Security has received 637 proposals from 325 vendors for the potential 10-year, $10 billion FirstSource III information technology contract and that Phase I evaluation of the proposals is nearly complete, according to an updated notice to industry. DHS informed vendors that it expects to issue advisory downselect notificat...
Peraton has won a potential $2.69 billion single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help the Department of Homeland Security manage a hybrid computing environment consisting of a data center, colocation facilities and cloud services. DHS offered details of the Data Center and Cloud Optimization contract in the Federal Procurem...
In August, the Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate recently published a strategy to maximize technological opportunities from artificial intelligence and machine learning. “Through this strategy, S&T will build and apply expertise to help the department fulfill the game-changing promise of AI/ML techn...
