The order is part of a five-year, $134 million Information Assurance Program Support contract vehicle. BAE Systems is the prime contractor for the FBI information security contract, the company said in a statement.
BAE Systems will provide continuous monitoring of information security risks to the FBI networks to detect changes to the network’s hardware and software. "We're serving as the gatekeepers for the FBI in the cyber world," explained Tom Sechler, a vice president and general manager of the company's Intelligence & Security sector.
BAE Systems already provides information sharing and security services to other parts of the US Department of Justice. It supports 30 000 employees from a number of Justice organizations dispersed across 789 locations.
In one task for Justice’s Criminal Division, BAE Systems performed the first implementation of an active directory on the network.
In another task for the Executive Office of US Attorneys, BAE Systems implemented the Microsoft Project Enterprise Solution, and a BlackBerry Enterprise Server that integrated the office’s Microsoft Exchange Server and incorporated a security architecture that encrypted incoming and outgoing wireless e-mail using the triple data encryption standard. In accomplishing this, BAE Systems deployed and customized 13 200 computers and 1108 switches in 239 locations within eight months.