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Unisys Gets DHS Contract Worth Up to $750 million

Posted by samzenpus on from the sign-on-the-dotted-line dept.

feamsr00 writes "In an affirmation of its business relationship with Unisys Corp., the Department of Homeland Security awarded the Blue Bell firm a "bridge" contract worth up to $750 million. Some controversy erupted in the fall after it was reported that the government was auditing a Unisys contract because the company had possibly overbilled the Transportation Security Administration by as much as 171,000 hours of labor and overtime. TSA is a division of the Homeland Security department. Unisys is also to upgrade the Department of Homeland Security's headquarters facility in Washington."

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  1. pardon me? by Combas · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Man I wish I was in security right now.

    I just find it amazing how security experts are getting paid such big bucks yet according to recent audits show they arent really making things all that much safer.

    1. Re:pardon me? by university+chica · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I work for TSA. We really don't get paid that well, and our overtime and staffing have been cut drastically. Maybe if we weren't understaffed by almost 30% of our federally allotted screeners and prohibited from doing overtime, security would be better.

  2. that's great. by User+956 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It makes me feel much better, considering they cut the CyberSecurity budget to $16 million.

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  3. I work for Unisys.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Posting anonymously for obvious reasons.

    Reading a story about 'us' overbilling, generally being corrupt is a bit of a non event. Breaks my fucking heart to see some of the shit that goes on with middle and upper management, coming into the office every day means giving up a bit (read: a lot) of self respect, unfortunately I've got bills to pay :(

    1. Re:I work for Unisys.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Why would I bother with lies? There's nothing for me to gain by spinning bullshit to anybody.

      I work for Unisys, they're a pack of assholes. We sell expensive services to PHB's and effectively do very little. Front line workers are treated like imbeciles, customers are milked more than I thought could have been possible.

      Management is little short of insulting, the day I recieved training manuals on "How to ensure you're not dealing with a terrorist organisation", was the day I started looking elsewhere for income. A company like this wasting money feeding the ol' terror machine is something I just don't want to be a part of anymore.

      A lot of the time a problem arises, there's more discussion on how to avoid fixing it, or making it an "out of scope" issue than there is discussion on how to fix the problem and avoid it in the future.

      Believe what you like, but maybe somebody will read this and look elsewhere for an outsourcing solution, maybe they won't. Clearly that won't have any impact on you.