This is a $26,095,550.65 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL) for subject matter experts to provide system engineering and technical support services for the Secure Border Initiative (SBI) Systems Engineering Program Office (SPO).
The contract has an ultimate completion date of August 30, 2020 and was awarded on November 1, 2010. It was not set aside for any specific business category. APL, a not-for-profit university-affiliated research center, will leverage its expertise in areas like defense technology, cybersecurity, and research and development to support CBP's border security mission through this contract. The Johns Hopkins University, APL's parent organization, is a leading research institution that has been awarded numerous prime and subcontracts, as well as grants, from federal agencies for a wide range of scientific and technical services.