Unisys has been awarded a multi-year task order to build an advanced information technology infrastructure for the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The initiative will help to secure the safe transport of travellers at 429 commercial airports throughout the United States.
Under the managed services contract, Unisys and its partners will provide information technology and telecommunications services, including hardware and software services, help desk, network/security operations and business process re-engineering services for TSA, a new agency enacted by Congress and President Bush in response to the events of September 11, 2001. It is expected that TSA ultimately will be incorporated into the new US Federal Department of Homeland Security.
This performance-based task order has an initial period of three years and can be renewed by the US government for two additional two-year option periods. The value of the initial work orders for the government's 2002 fiscal year, which ends September 30, is US$23 million and the estimated value for fiscal year 2003 is US$221 million.
Also included in the contract is a full complement of managed services to integrate everything from personal digital assistants and secure mobile radios to high availability local- and wide-area networks and enterprise operations centres.
