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By Light selected by DISA for $23.5 million contract

By Light was awarded a $23.5 million task order on the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Global Information Grid Services Management – Engineering, Transition and Implementation (GSM-ETI) contract.

Task Order 32 (TO32) is for the DISN Secure Systems Engineering and Evolution Support.

By Light provides global engineering support to DISA’s Infrastructure Directorate for all elements, layers, and gateways of the DISN infrastructure to include an IP-based and optical switch infrastructure, leveraging encryption over terrestrial and undersea fiber-optic networks, as well as military and commercial satellite communications, said the company in a statement.

[Image courtesy: DISA]

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