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$205,083,464

Department of Homeland Security·U.S. Customs and Border Protection

to FOUR POINTS TECHNOLOGY, L.L.C.

justiceactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2024 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2024-07-01·LATEST ACTION2026-07-10·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_70B04C24F00000413_7014_NNG15SD22B_8000
Award description

AMAZON WEB SERVICES FOR CBP.

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Cloud infrastructure (AWS) to support CBP border security and administrative operations through 2026.

Sub-sectors
cbp-operationscloud-infrastructureborder-security-it
Why this matters

The latest obligation on a $205M multi-year contract (2024–2026) locks CBP into heavy reliance on commercial cloud for national security operations, raising federal data sovereignty and cyber-resilience questions.

Supply-chain signal

Sustained demand for AWS data center capacity and operational support; signals CBP's continued shift away from on-premises infrastructure toward managed cloud platforms.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. government secures border-security operations on a domestic cloud platform (AWS), avoiding foreign-owned alternatives and reinforcing domestic cloud dominance for critical infrastructure.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-07-12. Cost: $0.006134.

Period of performance
Start
2024-07-01
End
2026-12-31
Status
activein 171 days
Sources

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