- AT&T has announced that it struck a $984 million 15-year contract to upgrade the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) technology systems
AT&T has struck a $984 million 15-year contract to upgrade the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) technology systems. The DOJ is working with AT&T to help improve mission performance with modernized technology. The work was awarded via Task Order through the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) technology procurement program.
Through the award, the DOJ will transition to a next-generation communications platform supporting more than 120,000 employees across more than 2,100 locations. And the fully managed solution includes networking capabilities, including IP voice, data, security, cloud access, and professional services. This will serve as a catalyst for the DOJ’s long-term technology priorities.
“The DOJ and its component organizations do the hard work of protecting the freedoms, rights and safety of all Americans,” said AT&T’s VP of Public Safety and FirstNet Stacy Schwartz. “We are honored to provide a modern communications platform and capabilities to support the DOJ’s work for the next 15 years.”
The EIS program is a federal technology procurement that allows government agencies to cost-effectively modernize and expand upon mission support. And AT&T solution will provide DOJ the flexibility and protections to meet their requirements as they aim to strike the right balance between needs to access cloud services from multiple providers and ensuring the access is highly secure.
Plus the new solution will help simplify cloud adoption across 43 component organizations and support the Department’s Joint Cloud Optimized Trusted Internet Connection Service (JCOTS) — which will accelerate the path for the DOJ to access multiple cloud environments with improved security, reliability, and speed.
And the DOJ solution also includes access to the AT&T mobility network and FirstNet — which is a nationwide dedicated communications platform purpose-built for public safety.
FirstNet is known for bringing public safety a physically separate core network for enhanced security, priority and preemption, no speed limitations anywhere in the country, and Band 14 spectrum for their dedicated use. These services and AT&T’s global network offer DOJ and its component organizations access to highly secure and reliable connectivity as well as vital communications capabilities when and where they are needed.
