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HP Awarded $32.4M Security Contract

By TechTaffy Desk

DHS

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded HP a cyber-security contract worth up to $32.4 million, under the DHS Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) government-wide Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA).

HP captured the largest portion of the first task order awarded under the DHS CDM program to provide software security product licenses for 33 U.S. federal civilian government agencies.

The original $6 billion CDM BPA, awarded in August 2013, includes 17 vendors. The five-year, multivendor program is designed to help the government address the rising volume and complexity of cyberthreats.

[DHS]

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