OAKTON, Va., Nov. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- What's the
news? AT&T* will deliver modern networking
capabilities and other advanced technologies to the National
Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under a Task Order from
NOAA valued at $311 million over 10
years. The Task Order was made under the General Service
Administration's (GSA) Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS)
program, which the government created to help federal agencies
modernize their technology infrastructure.
Why is this important? NOAA wants to
modernize and transform its networking technologies and lay the
foundation for 5G and multi-access edge computing capabilities.
Using EIS, NOAA is acquiring from AT&T networking
infrastructure and advanced capabilities that can power its mission
well into the next decade.
A key reason the agency needs the capabilities is the alarming
rate at which weather events are impacting the U.S. The first 9
months of 2020 brought a record-tying 16 different billion-dollar
disasters. NOAA is America's environmental intelligence agency,
responsible for daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings and
climate monitoring as well as fisheries management, coastal
restoration and supporting marine commerce. Its products and
services support economic vitality and affect more than 1/3 of
America's Gross Domestic Product.
What is the scope of NOAA's network
modernization? Under this agreement, we will
transform NOAA's current networking model, moving from a multiple
vendor environment to a single, seamless next-generation
communications platform. This consolidation of networks onto a
single IP-based network can help reduce network outage risks and
improve network and application availability. AT&T's network
modernization effort for NOAA is comprehensive. We will modernize
NOAA's networking services across the breadth of its U.S.
Territories and international operations including its headquarters
and 6 line offices. These include the National Weather Service
(NWS), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Ocean
Service (NOS), Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), National
Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS),
and Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO).
We will deliver advanced technologies including unified
communications, virtual private networking, IP-based wireless and
wireline networking. With NOAA, we will manage this network and its
security services. We expect our network capabilities will enhance
the speed of data transmission across NOAA's organizations and
support task efficiencies in everyday operations such as
communications and weather data collection, sharing, analysis and
publishing. Ultimately, our advanced technologies will support the
entirety of NOAA's mission, shared across the NOAA workforce who
will be using them to help keep the public informed of the changing
environment around them: from the surface of the sun to the depths
of the ocean floor.
Quote from Zachary Goldstein,
Chief Information Officer, NOAA:
"Telecommunications is vital to NOAA's missions. Moving to
Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions is key to modernizing our
telecommunications and continuing to advance our service to the
American people."
Quote from Chris Smith, Vice
President-Civilian and Shared Services, AT&T Public Sector and
FirstNet:
"NOAA's mission is highly data intensive requiring the most
sophisticated advanced networking services commercially available.
This Task Order award is testimony to our capability to deliver
robust and reliable services at scale and manage them end-to-end to
help government agencies like NOAA improve mission
fulfillment."
When does the work begin? Network implementation services
begin immediately.
Where can I find more information? Go here for
more information about AT&T's work in the public sector or
visit NOAA here.
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