NSA Awards AT&T Classified $2 Billion Tech Contract...
AT&T Captures Classified NSA Tech Contract
By Executive Editor JANUARY 24, 2018
After a bid protest, AT&T can now move forward on
work it will carry out under NSA’s classified Groundbreaker contract, worth
billions.
Following a resolved bid protest, the National Security
Agency can now begin work with telecommunications giant AT&T on the second
of three massive tech contracts that make up the agency’s classified
Groundbreaker program.
The Government Accountability Office denied a protest
last week, filed by losing bidder DXC Technology, allowing AT&T to begin
executing on an IT contract that sources tell Nextgov could be worth up to $2
billion.
The deal follows another $2.4 billion tech contract the
NSA awarded in September to tech firm CSRA, which–together with a third
contract the NSA has yet to award–will represent a continuation of the
Groundbreaker program that dates back to 2001.
Through Groundbreaker, the NSA purchases mission-critical
information technology solutions, including its own private cloud, which acts
as a repository for the all the agency’s data.
In 2001, NSA awarded the first Groundbreaker contract,
worth up to $5 billion over 10 years, to the Eagle Alliance, a cadre of
contractors led by Computer Sciences Corporation, which is now CSRA.
The same group, which includes other major contractors
such as Northrop Grumman, won NSA’s recompete of Groundbreaker, which was set
to expire in September 2017.
The resolved bid protest is another boon for AT&T’s
government business, which has scored a string of high-profile federal
contracts.
The tech giant snagged a $6.5 billion contract to build,
deploy and maintain the nation’s first public safety broadband network last
March; was one of 10 vendors to win a spot on a telecommunications contract
valued at up to $50 billion; and became one of 60 vendors to win a spot on the
Alliant 2 contract, also valued at up to $50 billion.
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