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L-3 Wins $218M NGA Contract For Global Network Solutions

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L-3 Communications has been awarded a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA’s) Information Technology Enterprise Managed Services (ITEMS) Transport Services contract for engineering, operations and sustainment services to NGA’s global communications infrastructure. The five-year contract has an expected value of $218 million.

Under the contract, L-3 will provide services that include wired and wireless Local Area Networks (LANs) and Wide Area Networks (WANs), as well as the associated equipment, security devices and cable infrastructure .

[Image courtesy: L-3 Communications]

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