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Lumen Technologies has received a five-year, $110 million contract to continue delivering secure, mission-critical network services to the U.S. Department of Defense.
Awarded by the Defense Information Systems Agency, the contract encompasses the operation and maintenance of the agency’s fiber structure, Lumen announced from Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.
Jason Schulman, national vice president of federal sales at Lumen, said DISA “leverages the Lumen network’s strength, diversity and resiliency” to connect and protect American service members.
He explained that Lumen’s fiber network provides always-on, 24/7 services that “power” the DOD.
To support DISA’s fiber architecture, Lumen will work on colocation facilities, dark fiber, diverse end-to-end network infrastructure, new fiber builds and system enhancements that will apply new technologies to increase network resiliency, decrease latency and expand availability.
Contract activities will begin on Nov. 30 and continue through Sept. 30, 2028.
Currently, Lumen manages over 11,000 fiber miles associated with the DOD Information Network. The enterprise is also working under multiple ongoing DISA contracts, one of which is a $223 million award issued in February for modern hybrid-cloud voice and audio conferencing services.
In November 2022, Lumen secured a $1.5 billion contract from the agency to provide high capacity, end-to-end communications services to DOD components in the Asia Pacific region. Under this award, the company is delivering ethernet, internet and wavelengths to support the region’s network infrastructure backbone.
