DRS Systems Awarded $50 Million to Bring VOIP to DoD
Defense Industry Daily reports that the DoD has awarded a contract to bring Voice Over IP services to military personnel in the field:
DRS Systems, Inc. in Parsippany, NJ received a $50 million indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract for a satellite-based internet-broadband service and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network in support of deployed military personnel. Locations include Iraq and the Balkans, as well as other non-Global Information Grid (GIG) operations in the European Command, Central Command, Pacific Command, and African Command Areas of Responsibility as well as the British Indian Ocean Trust Authority (Diego Garcia), and other unidentified locations per tasking received by the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Europe office. M.C. Dean has also received some contracts along these lines.
The terms of the deal include options that could bring the total value of the contract to $250 million. Approximately 75% of the work will be performed in Iraq, and the project is expected to be complete by August 2008 (or August 2012 if all options are excercised).
Defenselink also has the details (see the Navy section).
