The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), a US governmental body, has awarded Lockheed Martin a $1.2 billion contract to manage its ‘Integrated Hiring Operations and Personnel’ (IHOP) Program. 

Under the potential eight-year contract, Lockheed Martin will develop a fully-integrated human resources system to support the recruiting, assessing, hiring, paying and promoting of all TSA employees.  Lockheed Martin will develop and deploy an advanced HR system, as well as provide the people and processes to manage TSA's human resource services. 

Elmer Nelson, Vice President of homeland security solutions, commented: "It is a privilege to continue our support to the TSA. Our IHOP solution will allow the TSA to have the right staff at the right time and at the right place to support its critical mission of keeping our nation safe and secure."

The contract will be managed by TSA's Office of Human Capital, who is responsible for hiring and retaining qualified personnel to carry out the agency's critical missions.

Lockheed Martin has supported the TSA since its inception in 2002 on programs such as screener training and checkpoint reconfiguration.  The contract also builds on the corporation's previous experience in managing large federal human capital programs.