AT&T wins piece of DISA ethernet gateway upgrade
By
Ross Wilkers
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded AT&T the next portion of its initiative to acquire ethernet connectivity for linking up with the military’s global information network.
After a four-month pause of source selections, the Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded the next portion of its initiative to acquire ethernet connectivity for linking up with the military’s global information network.
DISA has selected AT&T for a potential 10-year, $46.9 million contract to install new ethernet switches at locations in Nevada and Northern California.
The agency received four total offers for the contract to work in Region 7 of its Commercial Ethernet Gateway effort, the Defense Department said in its Wednesday awards digest.
Broken out by region in the U.S., the CEG program is intended to help DISA and its customers across DOD use the same networks provided by commercial telecommunications companies to access the Department of Defense Information Network known as DODIN.
Awardees then work with DISA on replacing legacy circuits with the ethernet switches. Comcast has won all five of the other CEG regions DISA awarded this year including the two covering greater Washington, D.C.
AT&T will perform its work over an initial six-year base period and up to a pair of two-year option periods.