Telos Corp. of Virginia has gained a U.S. Army task order to provide Defense Message System support at the Pentagon Telecommunications Center. The one-year contract from the U.S. Army Information Technology Agency includes one option year and is worth more than $32 million if all options are exercised.
The PTC is the Army's nerve center in the Pentagon for operating and managing the critical IT infrastructure related to secure, organizational messaging. Under the contract, Telos will assist the center with integrating, operating and maintaining a single, integrated DMS at three security levels.
Telos will also continue to operate and maintain the DMS, providing 24-hour, year-round customer service support for facilities in the National Capitol region and beyond.
"DMS securely sends and tracks official communications for command and control purposes, delivering secure message traffic from one organization to another, providing official orders or guidance to the receiving organization, and transmitting officially recognized intelligence information," said Frank Whitehead, senior vice president and general manager of secure solutions at Telos. "It is the vital backbone on which other secure organizational messaging applications, such as the Automated
Message Handling System, reside."
Telos said it has provided support to PTC for the past eight years. Its partners for the base year services in this contract include Data Systems
Analysts Inc., Web Business Solutions, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and UHD.