With the telecommunications industry rapidly consolidating, cable television companies are starting to see opportunities to grab business in the federal market.
General Dynamics Corp. has won a three-year, $36 million contract from the Air Force to provide centrally managed logistics support for the Combat Information Transport System.
Nortel Networks Federal Solutions division won a $20 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to improve the control and responsiveness of the Defense Switched Network.
The coastal communication system is at risk for spiraling costs and schedule slippage because it requires hundreds of coastline towers to be built on environmentally sensitive sites.
The Government Accountability Office has thwarted a $1 billion Treasury Department award to AT&T Corp. after it learned that agency had entered into an agreement that encouraged it to let the contract expire early.
<font color="CC0000">UPDATED</font color> The Government Accountability Office has sustained protests filed by three companies against the Treasury Department's award of the $1 billion Treasury Communications Enterprise contract to AT&T.
The Marine Corps Systems Command has selected N.E.T. Federal's Promina multiservice access and Shout900 IP telephony platforms for deployment in the Joint Enhanced Core Communication System.
Titan Corp. recently launched a mobile enterprise security system that allows secure storage, transmission and access of information in a mobile environment, officials from the San Diego company said.
The federal telecommunications market is entering a new era that will be marked by fewer carriers, but a broader range of services that will help agencies streamline how they manage communications.
Several industry officials told House lawmakers that more changes need to be made and some even want a second set of draft RFPs released for the $20 billion telecom program.
Unisys Corp. won a three-year, $9.5 million contract with the Australian state of Victoria to provide managed services to the IT infrastructures of two departments.
