Twelve companies win $900M contract to support homeland security tasks

Twelve companies will compete for work under a five-year $900 million Air Force contract that calls for services in support of Homeland Defense and Security Technical Area Tasks, or HD TATS.

The winners are:

• Booz Allen Hamilton
• Battelle Memorial Institute
• Jacobs Technology
• MacAulay-Brown
• MRI Global
• National Security Information Associates
• Strategic Analysis Inc.
• Leidos
• Scitor Corp.
• TASC Inc.
• URS Federal Services
• Wyle Laboratories Inc.

Under the contract, the companies will provide research, development, test and evaluation, and advisory and assistance services related to research and development efforts for TATs within the chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense, homeland defense and security, critical infrastructure protection, weapons of mass destruction, biometrics, medical, cultural studies and alternative energy focus areas, the Defense Department said in a release.

Work location will be determined when each task order is awarded, and work is expected to be completed by April 2019.

13 bids were received for this contract.