12 firms land spots on DHS's $1.5 billion counter-unmanned aircraft contract
Gettyimages.com / Ihm
By
Ross Wilkers
The Homeland Security Department set up this contract to cover hardware, software and services for many types of operational use cases.
The Homeland Security Department has awarded 12 companies positions on a potential five-year, $1.5 billion contract covering a broad range of products and services for counter-unmanned aircraft systems.
DHS set up the contract as an avenue for acquiring hardware, software and services in support of a variety of operational use cases and capabilities.
DHS made awards Friday and broke up the contract into two tracks, according to Sam.gov records. One track focuses on hardware/software products and ancillary services, while the second covers on comprehensive services.
Hardware/software and ancillary services winners are as follows:
- BAE Systems’ U.S. subsidiary
- CACI International
- Dedrone Defense
- D-Fend Solutions
- EMS Defense Technologies
- Fortem Technologies
- Leidos
Comprehensive services winners are as follows:
- Anduril
- Astrion
- BAE Systems’ U.S. subsidiary
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- General Dynamics’ IT services unit
- Leidos
- Parsons Corp.
The department received 57 offers for track one and 47 for track two, Sam.gov records indicate. Bidders could pursue both tracks if they wanted to.
Aptly named C-UAS, the contract is intended to stay current with available market solutions that can support systems through their lifespans.
Solicitation documents released in November describe fixed-location security and mobile response as use cases DHS expects this contract to support.