NASA offers $14.2 million catch award to Qwest Government Services

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NASA has made a $14.2 million catch award to Qwest Government Services, a subsidiary of Qwest Communications, to upgrade the federal agency’s Corporate Backbone circuits from 2.5Gbps to 10Gbps. This serve as the high-speed broadband network that provides corporate wide area network transport for e-mail, collaboration, and scientific, financial and business applications for the agency’s headquarters, field centers, and numerous facilities and partner locations across the country and the world.

The circuits include a large portion of the NASA Corporate Backbone in terms of capacity and connectivity. Total award is $14.2 million for eight years and was made under Qwest's U.S. General Services Administration's Networks Universal contract.