Verizon bags $15M U.S. Navy contract

Verizon Public Sector has secured a $15 million task order to provide voice and data services for the U.S. Navy’s Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) division.

The contract, which was awarded through the federal government’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) procurement program, will see Verizon incorporate “new technologies and services” for voice at MWR’s domestic and international locations.

The carrier will also modernize the Navy’s data services by transitioning its Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) voice platform to Ethernet.

The Navy is an existing customer for Verizon. The company in 2021 landed a $78 million contract with Naval District Washington to update the agency’s TDM platform to a hosted Internet Protocol Voice Service (IPVS) at NDW’s Indian Head facility in Maryland. That task order was also awarded through EIS.

Maggie Hallbach, SVP of Verizon Public Sector, noted in a statement the MWR contract “represents the latest example of Verizon’s dedication to the digital transformation of federal agencies, as well as the broader public sector, as evidenced by the work we’ve done with the Department of Defense and a number of other agencies over the last few years.”

Earlier this year, Verizon won a $2.4 billion contract with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to upgrade its telecommunications and information management systems, along with a $146 million cloud contract for the United States Postal Service (USPS).

And in 2022, Verizon bagged nearly $1 billion in Department of Defense contracts to upgrade network infrastructure and a $1.5 billion task order from the U.S. State Department.

“Our deep public sector knowledge and experience coupled with our industry-leading managed and professional services capabilities separates Verizon as the premier public sector partner,” Hallbach said.

In a previous interview with Fierce Telecom, Hallbach said the main work Verizon is doing across its EIS contracts is “around decommissioning of TDM infrastructures, going to Ethernet and fiber-based services, starting to implement or implementing software-defined wide-area networks, [and] high-capacity links.”

“The pandemic has really accelerated the use of cloud-first solutions and so I think EIS a great vehicle to buy and consume those services,” she added.