# GardaWorld Federal Services **Entity class:** Organization or company **Domain:** Texas ## Definition Private services provider discussed through ICE transport and custody-related awards. The article connects armed transport, staffing, and facility services with the stage between arrest and removal. ## Operational role Texas supplies a concrete geography for the article’s participation architecture. Public reporting, fusion intake, local officer agreements, federal funding, and privately supplied transport occupy different positions in an operational chain. Standardized reporting and defined professional relationships turn distributed people and resources into usable public capacity. **Architecture connections:** [[wiki/Texas Fusion Center|Texas Fusion Center]] · [[wiki/Fusion Center|Fusion Center]] · [[wiki/United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement|United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]. ## Relationships - **contracted service:** [[wiki/Armed Detainee Transport|Armed Detainee Transport]]. - **operational layer:** [[wiki/Private Custody Infrastructure|Private Custody Infrastructure]]. - **public client:** [[wiki/United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement|United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]. - **collection route:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]]. - **counterterrorism architecture:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. - **source article:** [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft#XIII. The Pipeline Is the Sovereign|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft — XIII. The Pipeline Is the Sovereign]] — October 2026 revision; immediate source for this entry’s place in the marketplace. - [Project Saltbox, ICE Awards GardaWorld Up to $382 Million (2026).](https://www.projectsaltbox.com/p/ice-awards-gardaworld-up-to-382-million) ## Dated attributes in the source article **Article’s procurement account:** up to USD 382 million for armed ground transport across all 254 Texas counties; USD 17.1 million for a San Antonio facility conversion; commitments exceeding USD 700 million over six months. ## Connected marketplace roles The source article connects this entry with [[wiki/Pinkerton Inversion|Pinkerton Inversion]], [[wiki/Armed Detainee Transport|Armed Detainee Transport]], [[wiki/Private Custody Infrastructure|Private Custody Infrastructure]]. These routes locate the associated people, implementations, methods, and operational contexts in [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]]. **Collections:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]].