AT&T will continue to provide integrated communications platforms to federal customers after the company received a pair of contract extensions under the General Services Administration‘s network services procurement vehicle. GSA extended the company’s Networx Universal contract through March 2020 and its Networx Enterprise contract through May 2020, AT&T said Tuesday. The government aims to launch the new Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions GWAC vehicle as […] More

AT&T has won an $11.3 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Navy to design and build five land mobile radio communication towers throughout the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, California. The company’s government solutions business unit will construct 70- to 150-foot-high towers that can operate as standalone facilities in remote areas within the Sierra Nevada […] More

AT&T has been awarded a five-year contract to provide mobile devices and related services to the Labor Department. The contract covers smartphones, tethering support and Enhanced Push-to-Talk service in support of the department’s wage and hour division employees, AT&T said Tuesday. Mike Leff, vice president for civilian agencies at AT&T’s government solutions business, said AT&T will […] More

AT&T has launched an internet protocol-based, open standard connectivity service that seeks to facilitate interoperability for land mobile radio systems used as communication tools by first responders, public departments and transportation agencies. AT&T’s Inter-RF Subsystem Interface complies with the APCO Project 25 connectivity standard for public safety networks and is designed to help users link […] More

Randall Stephenson, AT&T chairman and CEO, has been chosen by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler to head a “Robocalling Strike Force” that will help drive the development and adoption of tools to stop automated calls. Bob Quinn, AT&T federal regulatory group senior vice president, wrote in a blog post published Monday the strike force will also advise the […] More

The Air Force Association has partnered with AT&T to hold the first edition of AFA Cybercamps, a series of week-long seminars that seek to introduce cyber ethics and network security topics to school-age students. AFA said Monday its CyberPatriot program will host 83 CyberCamps across the nation, two of which, the California and Texas camps, were hosted by AT&T […] More

Stacy Schwartz leads the public safety organization within AT&T‘s public sector business in her vice president role at the global telecommunications company and oversees its services to federal entities such as the departments of Homeland Security, Justice and State. The AT&T public safety team’s areas of concentration include mobile devices and applications, cloud computing Internet Protocol-based systems, data transmission and cybersecurity. […] More

AT&T has been selected to provide wireless network connectivity support to an urban sensing project in the city of Chicago. The Urban Center for Computation and Data oversees the Array of Things project that aims to gather data on Chicago’s infrastructure, traffic congestion, air quality, climate, noise and other environmental factors through a network of […] More

Kay Kapoor, president of global public sector solutions at AT&T, has received recognition from Profiles in Diversity Journal as one of the winners of the 15th Annual Women Worth Watching Awards. The awards recognize a total of 162 nominees as the 2016 winners, who will be featured in the 2016 Women Worth Watching magazine edition in September, […] More

The Transportation Department has added AT&T as a strategic partner in the Smart City Challenge, a competition that seeks to develop an integrated city centered around data, technology and creativity. AT&T will provide the winning city roughly $1 million worth of hardware, products and services such as connectivity, IoT security consulting and  big data analytics support for traffic […] More

Chris Smith, global public sector solutions vice president of technology for AT&T‘s global public sector business, has said federal agencies with limited information technology budgets should team up with industry partners to address cybersecurity issues, Channelnomics reported Wednesday. Scharon Harding writes the government allocated $80.4 billion on IT spending last year with cybersecurity concerns as a prime focus for many agencies. Smith […] More

Kay Kapoor, president of government solutions business at AT&T, has won the Women in Technology’s 2016 Leadership Award for the corporate large market sector category in recognition of her work in the technology industry. WIT held the 17th Annual Leadership Awards Thursday at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Virginia, in an effort to acknowledge the mentorship, […] More