CenturyLink is a technology leader delivering hybrid networking, cloud connectivity, and security solutions to customers around the world. Through its extensive global fiber network, CenturyLink provides secure and reliable services to meet the growing digital demands of businesses and consumers. The company recently announced that it had won a second task order from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to manage all of NASA's voice traffic and provide fast, secure network connectivity to NASA's more than 15 space centers and regional research facilities.

CenturyLink previously won a task order to provide NASA headquarters with core backbone network services with speeds of up to 100 Gbps. These mission-critical modern voice and network services will support NASA's space exploration programs. Both contracts were awarded to CenturyLink under the General Services Administration's 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program and both have a period of performance of nine and a half years.

In the spring of 2019, CenturyLink was the first supplier to receive authority to operate under GSA's EIS program and won the first task order ever awarded under the program to provide core backbone network connectivity to NASA. EIS is a multiple-award contract vehicle for federal government agencies to purchase information technology and telecommunications infrastructure services. It gives federal agencies the flexibility and agility to migrate to modern communications and IT services that meet strict government security standards.

"We're honored to provide mission-critical voice services and network connectivity that allow NASA to focus on its vision to discover and expand knowledge for the benefit of humanity," says David Young, CenturyLink Senior Vice President for the public sector. "NASA entrusted CenturyLink with a second EIS award to provide agency-wide voice services and run its regional network that connects its celebrated space centers and regional research facilities with headquarters locations."

In January of this year, CenturyLink announced that it won a task order worth up to $1.6 billion to provide secure network services and IT modernization solutions to the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) via the EIS program. This task order covers two areas and has a combined maximum value of $1.6 billion, with 11 one-year options that run through 2032. Task area one is for managed core network services to design, engineer, build, secure, operate and maintain DOI's enterprise network from end to end, including software-defined wide area network, virtual private network, private line and ethernet transport services. It also includes managed security services, such as Managed Trusted Internet Protocol Services, and implementation of zero-trust networking solutions that meet the government's strict security requirements. Task area two covers managed access services, including secure cloud connectivity and WiFi.

"The Department of the Interior selected CenturyLink to deliver secure, modern network services that will help the agency achieve its mission to conserve and manage our nation's natural resources and cultural heritage for the benefit and enjoyment of the American people," said Young at the time. "This award from DOI shows that government agencies are increasingly turning to CenturyLink as their trusted provider to help them with their IT modernization efforts so they can focus on their mission."

By supplying cybersecurity, cloud, managed hosting, and IT services over its carrier-class network, CenturyLink provides government agencies with the security and reliability they need to carry out their important missions. CenturyLink is ranked Number 29 on Washington Technology's 2018 Top 100 list of federal government IT contractors. The company, which acquired TW Telecom in 2014 after TW Telecom had previously acquired GST Telecommunications, has had a presence in Hacienda since 1996 with both offices and a substantial local fiber optic network.

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