Calling Telecom: Let's Begin The Overhaul
So it has begun. AT&T won the first Networx contract, a deal worth up to a $1 billion. This according to an AP story that said the Treasury Department wants a new IP-based telecommunications network.
It appeared that the Department of Homeland Security had the lead as the first agency to take advantage of the giant Networx contract. But Treasury jumped first.
AT&T proudly wasted no time in announcing the deal for "a next-generation enterprise network known as Treasury Network (TNet)."
"TNet is a secure enterprise network that will facilitate the convergence of data, voice and video technologies into a single network infrastructure that supports the efficient operation of applications and services across the Treasury's entire operating environment," the company said in a press release. "The $270 million task order awarded to AT&T could be worth up to $1 billion with enhanced services and other options over the life of the contract."
In other news:
The 2 p.m. chat at WashingtonTechnology with Arthur E. Collins Jr. from the SBA looks like it might be interesting.
A piece at Government Computer News tells about a General Dynamics and subcontractor Lockheed Martin just scored a $921 million development contract for an improved battlefield communications system.
Just FYI from the story: "Since discovering shortcomings with its Cold War-era Mobile Subscriber Equipment battlefield radio equipment in 2002 during operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Army has struggled to develop a procurement strategy for new battlefield communications equipment that balances its need to field mature, fully functional equipment with the requirement that it issue replacement gear quickly. The Army set the program's total procurement at $10 billion."
By Robert O'Harrow |
September 26, 2007; 5:16 AM ET
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The Networx contract has been a real cash cow for Tom Davis, R VA 11th and his coat-tail traveling 2d wife Jeannemarie Devolites Davis. Look here to see how Davis got over $528,000 (as of June 2006), with help from felons Tom Delay and Jack Abramoff, strong-armed from Telecom. Under the "Pay to Pay" politics perfected by the RNCC when Davis was chair, the companies had to pay the politicians in order to be considered for a contract. They made sure the companies kept paying while the Networx contract awards were over 6 years late. They called this "churning" for cash. Davis repeated this for Postal Reform as well as for Katrina and Iraq contracts. The Networx contract was finally awarded when Davis lost the chairmanship of the Government Oversight and Reforem Committee and had to turn it over to Waxman after the 2006 election.