Verizon Public Sector wins FAA FENS contract

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Verizon Public Sector at present introduced a 15-year important infrastructure contract with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) price over $2 billion to design, construct, function and keep the FAA’s next-generation communications platform.

Beneath the phrases of the Federal Aviation Administration Enterprise Community Providers (FENS) contract, Verizon will construct the FAA a dynamic, extremely obtainable and safe enterprise community to help all the company’s mission important functions throughout the Nationwide Airspace System (NAS), which incorporates offering Air Visitors Administration (ATM) to greater than 45,000 flights and a couple of.9 million airline passengers touring throughout the greater than 29 million sq. miles that make up the U.S. nationwide airspace system.

Verizon’s community resolution is designed for the longer term with an array of recent capabilities to fulfill the following technology of functions with better bandwidth necessities. The communications infrastructure helps air and floor security for passenger, freight and chosen Division of Protection flights through three separate networks, one for NAS, one for administrative and one for analysis and improvement.

FENS is the successor to the FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI) contract, which was carried out in 2002 to offer consolidated telecom companies for the 5,000 amenities and 30,000 circuits within the NAS. By extension, FENS will function the first means for FAA’s telecommunications companies and types the essential infrastructure for the Subsequent Era Air Transportation System, or NextGen.

Moreover, the brand new enterprise platform managed by Verizon will present the FAA with options akin to dynamic service provisioning and reconfiguration, survivability, on-demand Service Move routing to ship greater safety, quicker efficiency and a versatile, extra seamless person expertise. Verizon additionally will present an intensive set of help companies together with program administration, community engineering, configuration administration, check and analysis (T&E), service ordering and provisioning, community and safety administration and operations.

Learn the total press launch right here.

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