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The U.S. Army awarded Verizon Business a number of Task Orders to upgrade communications at several installations across the world. PR Newswire has the press release. The combined value of the five task orders is over $70 million and the work will take one to four years depending on the base. The task orders are for work at Fort Greeley in Alaska, Maryland’s Aberdeen Proving Ground, Virginia’s Fort Lee, Fort Sill in Oklahoma and at the Kwajalein Missile Range. This is the latest in work won by Verizon as we wrote about a few days ago they received a significant expansion of their work at NASA. The Task Orders are part of the Installation, Information, Infrastructure Modernization (IMOD) contract. This is an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract providing for upgrades of the fiber-optic cable, data and voice communications for U.S. Army facilities. This contract has a potential value of over $4 billion.

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Matthew Potter works supporting US Army aviation programs. He holds degrees in history as well as studying at the Defense Acquisition University. He has written for Seeking Alpha and at his own website, Defense Procurement News.

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