DHS Awards Big CIS and ICE Contracts

SI International Inc. has won a contract worth up to $20.5 million to review the bonds posted for illegal immigrants at the Department of Homeland Security immigration and customs enforcement offices.

The contract for the Reston government contractor follows a $225 million win last month to maintain petitions and applications for the agency’s immigration and citizenship offices in Dallas and Lincoln, Neb.

Under the most recent contract for six months with four one-year options, SI International (NASDAQ:SINT) will employ “bond control specialists” to the agency to review bond actions and either update or settle them. Suspected illegal immigrants are held in jail under bonds that carry various prices. Click herefor the full story.

In a related story, ComCam International said Monday it has been awarded a contract to upgrade key infrastructure technology for the office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the General Service Administration’s facility in Manhattan.

The subsidiary of West Chester, Pa.-based ComCam Inc. (Pink Sheets:CMCA) didn’t reveal the value of the contract.

“We are now active on two fronts of the immigration issue, with both remote thermal devices on the border for entry detection and now technology at a facility where ICE personnel will be dealing with the detainees,” Don Gilbreath, ComCam CEO, said in a statement.

ComCam develops network video command-and-control products and provides related products and services to government and corporate clients.

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