Idemia Identity & Security USA LLC

Idemia Identity & Security USA LLC, headquartered in Reston, Virginia, is a for-profit limited liability company that designs, manufactures, and deploys biometric hardware, credential authentication technology systems, and identity verification solutions to federal agencies as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) with minimal subcontractor engagement. The vendor operates under no SBA set-aside designations and competes in full-and-open federal procurements, positioning itself as an established large-business provider of identity security infrastructure across civilian and defense agencies. Idemia is a subsidiary of Safran Power USA LLC and operates alongside two named sister entities: Idemia Civil Identity NA LLC and Idemia National Security Solutions LLC.

Idemia's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Department of Homeland Security. The Transportation Security Administration dominates the footprint, accounting for 51 awards valued at $2.7 billion combined potential value—representing approximately 86% of the vendor's total $3.14 billion across all awards. USCIS follows at 25 awards valued at $60.1 million. The top five funding agencies account for only 20% of award count but represent 90% of combined potential value, reflecting TSA's outsized dollar concentration. Idemia maintains active relationships with the Department of State, Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Personnel Management, Internal Revenue Service, National Park Service, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of the Interior, and Department of Defense across 150 distinct customer agencies in total.

Idemia's capability footprint centers on next-generation credential authentication technology (CAT2) systems, livescan biometric hardware and software, fingerprint identification systems (AFIS), Personal Identity Verification card issuance, Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) enrollment and card management, mobile driver's license readers, and related engineering support and cybersecurity services. A $128 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with TSA, awarded April 14, 2023, and running through April 2030, anchors most of the vendor's federal work and covers design, manufacture, testing, maintenance, installation, and support of next-generation credential authentication technology systems deployed at airport security checkpoints nationwide. Under this IDC, Idemia has issued multiple large delivery orders, including a $49.9 million maintenance order (July 2026), a $23.9 million mobile driver's license readers and upgrade kit order (September 2023), a $15.3 million CAT2 production systems order (December 2024), and a $13.98 million credential authentication technology fleet cybersecurity order (July 2023). A second major vehicle is a $194.5 million Blanket Purchase Agreement under the Login.gov Next Generation Identity Proofing program, awarded March 15, 2024, and running through March 2029, through which Idemia delivers biometric hardware, credential authentication, and identity verification services. Idemia also holds a $12.8 million single-award IDC with USCIS (through September 2026) for livescan hardware systems, installation, and operations and maintenance support, which has generated three delivery orders totaling approximately $10.2 million for equipment replacement and ongoing support. Additional contract vehicles include the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (30 task orders, $220.8 million combined potential value), the IT Schedule 70 (558 task orders, $71.8 million), and specialized DHS IDCs for TWIC and credential authentication systems. Representative awards outside the TSA/USCIS core include an $18.9 million delivery order from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for Identity Verification Support Services (May 2024), a $2.16 million fingerprint channeling contract from the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (October 2025) covering four-state digitization and transmission of fingerprint records, and a $305,233 software license order from the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs for Touchprint Enterprise livescan and cardscan software (April 2024).

Activity has remained relatively stable over the past five years, averaging 13 awards per year from 2022 through 2025, with four awards recorded in 2026 through mid-July. Eleven awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $69.4 million, representing near-term recompete exposure. The vendor's combined potential value has climbed to $3.14 billion, with $689.3 million obligated (22% realization rate), reflecting the heavy weighting toward large indefinite vehicles and task order draw-down patterns typical of credential and biometric systems contracting.

Service Contract Inventory data shows limited activity and narrow scope. Across three fiscal years (FY2022–FY2024), Idemia invoiced $22.2 million on SCI-reportable service contracts as a prime, with 3.2 FTEs in FY2022, declining to 2.5 FTEs in FY2023, then expanding to 6.4 FTEs in FY2024. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid rates ran around $441 per hour at the median, with senior consulting roles commanding up to $937 per hour and entry-level support positions priced near $139 per hour. The vendor self-performed all reported SCI work with zero subcontractor labor share, consistent with its prime-heavy posture. GSA Schedule labor offerings span 63 categories with rates from $89.81 to $493.31 per hour, covering roles from Help Desk Technician I through Technical Consulting Senior Director, requiring education from high school through bachelor's degree with no security-cleared positions offered; representative mid-spectrum roles include Biometric Application Engineer–Intermediate at $301.79 per hour and Business Systems Analyst IV at $239.12 per hour.

In its subcontractor role, Idemia provides biometric hardware, credential authentication components, and identity verification technology to defense and security integrators. Named primes include General Dynamics Information Technology (six sub awards between February and April 2025 for Global Security Engineering and Supply Chain Services), Leidos (two sub awards in FY2024–FY2025 for Travelers Processing Vetting Software and checkpoint maintenance), and Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (one sub award in June 2025 for PIV card services supporting the National Security Campus). Idemia also appears in federal grant sub-awards routed through state child care licensing and administration programs (Minnesota Department of Human Services from FY2022 through FY2024, State of Michigan in November 2025) for background check and child care administrative support work, suggesting ancillary identity-verification services outside the core TSA/USCIS footprint.

Idemia competes exclusively in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside activity, reflecting its established large-business status and capital-intensive product portfolio. The vendor's category concentration is skewed toward IT software, IT support equipment, and IT input/output and storage devices (NAICS codes reflecting computer and software stores dominance), but the award detail and IDC scope map principally to specialized biometric hardware manufacturing and identity security infrastructure. The company's federal footprint has broadened from TSA/USCIS dominance into state and local identity background-check programs, federal civilian-agency identity proofing services, and defense-contractor integration roles, positioning it as a critical single-source provider for next-generation credential authentication and biometric enrollment capabilities across the federal government.