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$204,164,500

Department of State·Department of State
defenseactive
ACTION DATE2026-03-27·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_SAQMMA17C0177_1900_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

PASSPORT CARD STOCK AND RELATED EQUIPMENT AND SERVICESIGF::OT::IGF

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

Supplies passport card stock, printing equipment, and related services for U.S. passport production.

Sub-sectors
identity-securitygovernment-services
Why this matters

Secures critical identity document infrastructure essential to national border control and citizen mobility.

Supply-chain signal

Indicates sustained demand for secure printing materials and anti-counterfeiting technology in government ID production.

U.S.–China competition angle

Reduces reliance on foreign suppliers for sensitive identity document manufacturing and security features.

Generated by award_classification v1.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-14. Cost: $0.001205.

Period of performance
Start
2017-06-01
End
2027-12-31
Status
activein 595 days
Sources
  • Award record ingested from usaspending. Source identifier CONT_AWD_SAQMMA17C0177_1900_-NONE-_-NONE-.

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