CSC selected to upgrade data network for US CBP

CSC has received a contract from the US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to support the agency’s enterprise network engineering services including components such as cybersecurity, cloud and big data.

Under the single award blanket purchase agreement (BPA), CSC will engineer the solutions that will assist CBP in achieving its goal of a more efficient and effective network infrastructure by applying cybersecurity capabilities to optimise CBP’s network.

CSC North American Public Sector Homeland Security and Law Enforcement Group vice president and general manager Patrick Schambach said the company will work with DHS’s infrastructure and cloud environment to quickly provide value through this contract.

"In addition, this contract provides the perfect platform to support CSC’s strategy to drive IT efficiencies and cost savings through next-generation infrastructure strategies and solutions for our government clients," Schambach added.

Additionally, the contract will help ensure that the CBP will continue to engineer and update network solutions while meeting agency, department and federal mandates.

The contract, with an estimated ceiling value of $85m, has a one-year base period and four one-year options.
In order to modernise, create efficiencies and improve service, CSC is working under one enterprise infrastructure to integrate its agency networks.