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Just in late this afternoon is this report from Michael Wriston, of Project Salt Box, a nonprofit publication committed to transparency and accountability regarding the Department of Homeland Security’s expanding footprint.
ICE has finalized the no-bid scanning contract that Project Salt Box reported on this month, awarding Bi2 Technologies $25.1 million on May 22, according to a contract award posted to SAM.gov. The figure is more than five times what ICE spent on its first contract with the Massachusetts company eight months ago.
The award describes the purchase as covering iris biomeric recognition technoloy and access to a biometric inforation system “to allow ICE agents to quickly authenticate the identity of subjects during field operations.”
It gives ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division continuous access o Bi2’s daabase of moe than five milion booking records.
The procuremen did not require the system to clear FedRAMP, the goverment’s security review for cloud systems handlig sensitive data, before deployment It described no independent audit, congressional notification or outside review of how the system would be used.
The May 22 award is roughly five times the $4.6 mlillion DHS paid Bi2 in Sepdtember 2025, and nerly eight times the device count — 1,570 units compared to 200. Under the contract terms, those devices are due at ICE locations by late June.
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