CenturyLink Authorized To Bid on Defense Orders Under $4.3 Billion GNS Contract
CenturyLink said it was chosen as an authorized network services provider by the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency under its $4.3 billion Global Network Services (GNS) contract. Authorized providers can bid on orders for network transport services that support DOD…
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operations, mostly outside the continental U.S., said a release Thursday from CenturyLink, which noted it could bid on a suite of services that includes "content delivery networks, virtual private networks, fiber-optic broadband, Wi-Fi, satellite, wave length, network security, colocation, cloud connectivity and software-defined networking services." GNS is a multiple-award contact with a five-year base period (and five one-year extensions possible) aimed at shifting the use of point-to-point circuits to "newer technical approaches" to consolidate DOD's "network for global voice, video, imagery and data transmissions" on a 100 Gbps backbone by 2020, it said.