Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA), a sub-agency within the Department of Defense responsible for personnel security vetting, industrial security oversight, and counterintelligence support to cleared industry, has awarded 3,258 federal contracts totaling $12.01 billion in combined potential value since 2000, with $8.64 billion obligated as of the most recent recorded date.

Contract activity has accelerated over the last five years, with 109 awards in 2022, 127 in 2023, 233 in 2024, 144 in 2025, and 119 year-to-date in 2026. The most recent award was recorded on September 8, 2026. The agency transacts across 878 distinct prime contractors, though the competitive landscape is fragmented at the award-count level. At&T Corp. leads by award count over the last five years with 108 awards but only $212 thousand combined potential value, followed by Carahsoft Technology Corp with 21 awards worth $334.6 million combined potential value. By potential value, Consortium Management Group Inc. ($348.2 million across 11 awards) and Carahsoft Technology Corp lead. The top five primes by award count hold 25 percent of recent awards, while the top five by potential value hold only 7 percent of combined potential value over the same window, indicating that high-volume primes typically hold smaller dollar values and that value concentration is dispersed across a long tail of smaller awardees.

Set-asides are minimal. Seventy-six percent of all awards carry no set-aside designation; 17 percent are small-business set-asides, 2 percent are 8(a) sole source, and 1 percent are service-disabled veteran-owned small business. All other set-aside categories account for less than 1 percent each.

Recent contract opportunities emphasize personnel security, industrial security infrastructure, and mission-application modernization. DCSA posted a pre-solicitation request for information on September 14, 2026 (due September 22, 2026) for a Personnel Security Alert Management (PSAM) Platform to support continuous vetting operations through Security Information Event Management and Security Operations Center capabilities. An Innovation Gateway initiative (DCSAInnovationCall01, due September 18, 2026) seeks a Unified Application Access and Integration Prototype to consolidate fragmented personnel vetting, industrial security, counterintelligence, and insider-threat applications. A small-business set-aside pre-solicitation (A033281, due September 21, 2026) solicits Industrial Security Support Services for analytical, technical, and strategic support across the National Industrial Security Program enterprise. Special notices also include sole-source awards to Bloomberg Finance L.P. for open-source research and analytics supporting entity vetting risk assessment, Criminal History Record Information (CHRI) access infrastructure connecting U.S. and international law-enforcement repositories, and shuttle-bus services at the Boyers, Pennsylvania facility through Iron Mountain Information Management, LLC.

The Department of Defense's Defense Security Service (DSS) has been renamed the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) as of June 24, 2019. The DCSA provides security for the Department of Defense and a number of other federal agencies. This includes providing industrial security oversight and assistance for contractor facilities.