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Contracts: Lockheed Martin wins $24 million CDC terror prep contract

Lockheed Martin has been selected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide information technology services to the agency’s Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response (COTPER) in Atlanta. This task order has one base year and three option years, with an estimated program value of more than $24 million. Awarded within the scope of an already competed Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) under a General Services Administration schedule, the contract calls for Lockheed Martin to provide information technology support to elements of COTPER including systems architecture, Web design, application development and support, management, and security.

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Sagem Sécurité (SAFRAN Group), whose U.S. subsidiary is Sagem Morpho, has been selected by the UK Home Office to supply the biometric management system for UK visa applicants and the biometric management subsystem for Britain’s Biometric Residents Permit (BRP) project. The latter program is designed to provide the means to track the immigration status for third country nationals, through the production of biometric cards. Such automated fingerprint identification systems can process more than 5,200 requests per hour, utilizing a database of 16 million.

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Raytheon Co. has been awarded a contract to evaluate the effectiveness of new technology for increasing system information assurance. The technology, which defends against potential attacks carried out by the operators of systems, was developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), by Teknowledge Corp., of Palo Alto, CA

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