Chenega Wins $500 Million Award Chenega Technology Services Corp., an 8(a) tribally-owned Alaskan Native Corporation, has won the largest contract award ever awarded by a civilian agency to an 8(a) contractor or small disadvantaged business: a 10-year, $500 million deal to maintain and repair inspection equipment at U.S. ports of entry. The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection said Chenega will be the prime contractor responsible for implementing the National Enforcement Equipment Maintenance and Repair Activity and Field Operations Support. The bureau “has deployed almost 12,000 technically complex and high-value inspection devices throughout the land border crossings, airports, and seaports of the United States to enhance our priority mission of preventing terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering our country,” said Robert Bonner, commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. “These devices are used daily by our law enforcement officers and are critical to the security of the United States.” Chenega will be responsible for training officers in the use of the inspection tools as well as maintenance and repair.