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Contracts: QinetiQ wins $30 million DoD counterintelligence contract

By Louis Chunovic, Senior Editor

Published January 11th, 2008

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The Missions Solutions Group of QinetiQ North America, of Fairfax, VA, was awarded a $30 million contract with the Defense Department’s Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA) agency. Under the five-year follow-on contract, the company will provide a wide range of unspecified security services to CIFA, primarily in the Washington area. The mission of CIFA, created in 2002, is the identification and tracking of terrorists and production of CI threat assessments and advisories in support of DoD force protection and critical infrastructure protection. QinetiQ’s original contract, awarded in December 2003, covered the protection of government personnel, critical infrastructure and sensitive defense programs.


The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services unit of DHS awarded a $28 million contract to General Dynamics Information Technology, to develop and install a secure identity document personalization system.


Anne Arundel County, MD, has contracted with the Tiburon Inc. subsidiary of CompuDyne Corp., of Annapolis, MD, to obtain an integrated public safety system, in a deal valued at $6.6 million. Tiburon will provide a new Computer Aided Dispatch system, along with law enforcement and fire records management, investigative analysis, mobile communication and civil process systems to support law enforcement and fire agencies in the county.


The University of Texas-San Antonio won a $6.4 million award from the National Security Agency to fund its cyber security program, known as the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS). The funding will expand the center's dark screen exercises in which mock cyber attacks are conducted on computer networks that handle public services such as 911 calls. CIAS officials will also use funds to expand their cyber security training program, which is designed to help cities handle cyber security issues.


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