Contract Awards

The Department of Homeland Security's science and technology directorate has selected a Florida-based company to test a wearable technology designed to monitor the health of canine agents that support law enforcement and border patrol missions.

The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration is investing $50M in grants supporting research and development efforts on nonproliferation over the next five years. NNSA said Thursday it will provide $5M per year to two university research consortia to integrate academic studies with National Laboratory applications in nuclear science and security.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is seeking innovative solutions from blockchain startups to enhance anti-forgery and counterfeiting through its Science and Technology Directorate, the department reported on December 4th.

The U.S. Navy has awarded the SeaPort Next Generation contract to Schafer Government Services, a division of Belcan‘s Government Services unit, the Arlington, Va., contractor announced Wednesday. The 10-year, indefinite delivery/indefinite quality contract has a total value of $50B.

Alan Thomas, commissioner of the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service, has said GSA will extend for up to three years its existing contracts for telecommunications services to give agencies enough time to transition to the potential 15-year, $50B Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract. Thomas wrote in a blog post published Thursday that the extended legacy contracts such as Networx, local service agreements and WITS will have a one-year base term and two option years.

The Justice Department has awarded over $56M in grant funding through the agency’s Office of Justice Programs to enhance state, local and tribal law enforcement safety and wellness policies.

Business Insider reported Wednesday that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) granted a contract worth $145M to SLSCO Ltd to construct 6 miles of border wall in the Rio Grande
Valley of South Texas between Mexico and the United States.

Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) has received a potential five-year, $564M task order to continue to provide integration and maintenance services for the Defense Department’s mission-critical software and hardware worldwide.

The U.S. Navy is now allowing all of its system commands to issue Other Transaction Authorities of up to $100M, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday.

The Defense Department and the U.K.'s defense ministry have selected a U.S.-U.K. institutional team to take part in a program aiming to bolster bilateral academic research collaboration, DoD News reported Tuesday.

Under the Bilateral Academic Research Initiative, the University of Southern California would receive up to $3M in funds, while the University of Essex would receive up to $1.9M, over a three-year period.