Booz Allen Hamilton has won a $1 billion contract to render a suite of cybersecurity services to vi federal agencies, the defence in addition to cybersecurity contractor announced Tuesday. Under the contract, which volition final upward to vi years, Booz Allen will manage cybersecurity services for the General Services Administration, the Health in addition to Human Services Department, NASA, the Social Security Administration, the Treasury Department in addition to the the U.S. of A. Postal Service. The projection is utilisation of a reimagining of the Homeland Security Department’s Continuous Diagnostics in addition to Mitigation, or CDM, program, which offers pre-vetted cyber tools to agencies. Under the novel system, Homeland Security is re-awarding all 4 phases of CDM to prime number contractors using trouble orders nether the General Services Administration’s Alliant contract, a governmentwide contract vehicle that covers a broad gain of technology scientific discipline goods in addition to services. When Alliant phases out, trouble orders volition motility nether the Alliant II vehicle.
Each of those prime number contractors volition move responsible for managing cyber services for a handful of agencies for upward to vi years.
The longer timeframe volition permit to a greater extent than flexibility, the project’s director Kevin Cox has said.
Previously, the subdivision awarded CDM contracts using a standalone $6 billion blanket buy agreement.
The $1 billion observe marks Booz Allen’s largest federal trouble guild inwards history, the fellowship said inwards a statement.
Booz Allen won a previous chunk of the rejiggered CDM inwards February. The $621 meg contract covered the Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Interior, Transportation in addition to Energy departments equally good equally the Office of Personnel Management in addition to Executive Office of the President.
Other portions of the rejiggered CDM convey been awarded to CACI, CGI Federal in addition to ManTech.
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