Verizon and AT&T have secured an authority to operate on the General Services Administration’s potential 15-year, $50B Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract for telecommunications and information technology services. GSA said Monday the companies each received the three-year ATO on Friday, March 22, after they completed the business support system security testing phase, which evaluated their capacity to process task orders and deliver services under the EIS vehicle.

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A spokesperson for the General Services Administration said two more companies are expected to secure in the next few weeks an authority to operate under GSA’s 15-year, $50B Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions vehicle for telecommunications and information technology services, Nextgov reported Friday. Michael Maiorana, senior vice president for public sector at Verizon, told Nextgov that the company is close to getting the final approval for the ATO.

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Verizon has selected five companies to participate in an innovation incubator program that seeks to build, test and refine wireless devices for use in public safety communications.

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Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Michael Maiorana, Verizon Public Sector senior vice president, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for his leadership and sales expertise that led to several big moves and contracts for the company. This marks the first Wash100 award for Maiorana.

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Verizon has led an effort to help a Defense Department agency migrate to a unified communications system that works to help users integrate voice, instant messaging, conferencing and video communications through a single platform. The telecommunications firm collaborated with Ribbon Communications, Black Box and Visioneering to advance the DoD agency’s transition to the UC platform, […] More

Jason Karp, former senior executive of the First Responder Network Authority, has been appointed to serve as chief legal counsel and board member at Secured Communications. In his tenure with FirstNet, Karp helped determine the complex law that resulted in the organization’s creation and implemented a deployment strategy supporting the public safety broadband network nationwide, Secured Communications said […] More

Verizon‘s federal business has secured a potential five-year, $23.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy to maintain and support switched voice and data telecommunications systems for the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Atlantic. The Defense Department said Thursday the service branch awarded the contract after a competitive solicitation process on FedBizOpps with one bid received. NCTAMS […] More

Verizon Communications plans to set up and operate a private network for first responders and other public safety personnel. The proposed public safety network will run separately from Verizon’s commercial core, manage call routing, network access and other communication functions as well as provide first responders access to the company’s 4G LTE network, Verizon said […] More

A business unit of Verizon has received a $20.4 million contract modification from the Defense Information Systems Agency to support a priority telecommunication service managed by the Department of Homeland Security‘s Office of Emergency Communications. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Verizon’s business network services unit will continue efforts to complete the Phase 1 implementation of the Next […] More

The venture businesses of Boeing and Verizon have invested in SparkCognition to help the Austin, Texas-based company further develop information technology applications through artificial intelligence and machine learning methods. Boeing said Monday its ventures arm HorizonX joined an investment group, led by Verizon Ventures, to support a $32 million initial funding round for SparkCognition. SparkCognition develops machine learning and analytics tools […] More

Harris has secured a potential 14-year, $700 million contract to provide a communications network that will work to connect public safety and law enforcement agencies, public schools and other government organizations across the state of Florida. Harris said Monday its teammates on the MyFloridaNet-2 project are CenturyLink, FPL FiberNet, Level 3 Communications, Southern Light and Verizon. The MFN-2 project […] More

Vic Bhagat, formerly executive vice president and chief information officer at EMC, has joined Verizon‘s enterprise solutions business as CIO. The 30-year industry veteran will oversee the unit’s technology strategy, information technology initiatives and development of next-generation enterprise communications services in his new position, Verizon said Monday. “With Vic’s passion and creativity to harness IT for innovation and […] More