Air Force Awards $4.3M in Task Orders for Ruggedized Laptops

Business Wire, Jan 3, 2008

AFRC and AFSOC will use Laptops to Support Aircraft Maintenance Work

ASHBURN, Va. -- Telos([R]) Corporation today announced the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) and the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) have each placed task orders under AFWAY through the NETCENTS and NETCOM BPA contracts totaling $4.3 million for ruggedized laptops to support aircraft maintenance operations on the flight line.

Under the orders, Telos is reselling 585 Itronix ruggedized laptops to be used at 18 AFRC sites across the United States and 289 laptops for four AFSOC sites -- Hurlburt Field, Fla., Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., Kadena Air Base, Japan and RAF Mildenhall, England.

The laptops will be used on the flight line and in hangars by aircraft maintenance technicians. These laptops will communicate with the base network over a secure wireless LAN previously designed and implemented by Telos.

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Telos Corporation has provided innovative IT solutions and services to the federal government for more than 30 years, focusing since 1989 on secure enterprise solutions. Telos and its subsidiary, Xacta Corporation, ensure that the government's most security-conscious organizations comply with demanding federal and DoD information security mandates. Xacta offerings include enterprise IT security management solutions, enterprise security consulting services, secure networks, secure enterprise messaging, and secure identity management solutions. Xacta solutions are represented to the federal government on Telos' GSA schedule. For more information, visit www.telos.com.

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