USA Taps DRS for Troop VoIP & IP Broadband Services

(click for explanation) DRS Systems, Inc. in Parsippany, NJ has received a series of contracts for satellite-based internet-broadband service and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network in support of deployed military personnel. Later announcements make a clearer distinction between this service and military operations, characterizing it as a “satellite IP services to support morale, welfare and recreation and other non-global information grid operations and programs.” Troops deployed to forward operating bases do need some level of phone and internet connectivity, and using an alternative to critical battlefield networks is just basic sense. M.C. Dean has also received some contracts along these lines. In DRS’ case, those contracts could expand to almost half a billion dollars from 2007-2011… April 7/11: Finmeccanica subsidiary DRS Technologies, Inc. in Herndon, VA receives a $169 million indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract modification for satellite internet protocol services supported by Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic, European Office. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract, including this modification, to $497 million. Work will be performed in Southwest Asia (95%) and Europe (5%), and is expected to be completed December 2011. The original contract was competitively procured, with proposals […]