Evistacom to provide capability to ID adversaries

U.S. Army Spc. Daniel Ochoa from Bell Gardens, Calif., serving with Task Force Black Knight, A Company, 2-28th, 3-66th Armor Regt., 172nd Inf. Bde., looks at a local man’s ID to confirm his identity outside Combat Outpost Sar Howza, Paktika province, Afghanistan, Sept. 18, 2011.

Evistacom has been awarded a $90 million contract for combat identification.

Under the contract, the company will “provide the capability to decisively establish the identity of adversaries and effectively link that identity to other information for Department of Defense, coalition and regional partners,” according to the DoD contract announcement.

The contract was awarded by Army Contracting Command. The work is scheduled to be completed by March 2021.