The DHS Privacy Office, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services proposed new scenarios for the technology in a reissued solicitation.

Brown spoke with FedScoop at a recent event.

Govplace won the contract back in July, but it was since protested.

CISO Shane Barney is growing his team of 100 developers within the security operations center, which is even testing bots in machine learning.