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$272,580,355

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

to GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.

justiceexpiredONGOING · MOD OF 2018 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2018-04-19·LATEST ACTION2026-04-28·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_70B02C18C00000040_7014_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

UAS OPERATIONAL AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES

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

Operational and maintenance services for unmanned aircraft systems supporting U.S. Customs and Border Protection border surveillance and enforcement.

Sub-sectors
border-securityuas-operationscbp-enforcement
Why this matters

The latest obligation on a 2018 border-security contract reflects sustained federal investment in autonomous surveillance capabilities for southern border operations.

Supply-chain signal

General Atomics maintains ongoing production and support infrastructure for MQ-9 Reaper and related UAS platforms serving federal law enforcement.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. reliance on domestic UAS for border security reflects strategic shift away from foreign drone dependence; China competes in commercial and military UAS markets.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-19. Cost: $0.002943.

Period of performance
Start
2018-04-19
End
2023-04-18
Status
expired1169 days ago
Sources

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