Telos Awarded NETCENTS Task Order to Sustain Organizational Message System for Air Force

Business Wire, June 30, 2008

Order Includes Labor and Technical Services for Defense Message System

ASHBURN, Va. -- The Air Force has awarded Telos([R]) Corporation a task order to implement and sustain the Defense Message System (DMS), an organizational messaging application used across the Department of Defense.

Under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity task order, awarded from the NETCENTS contract vehicle, Telos will provide labor and services to the Air Force Defense Message System Program Management Office, 754th Electronic Systems Group's Directorate of Operations, at Maxwell Air Force Base, (Gunter Annex), Ala. The contract runs for one base year with two, one-year option periods and is valued at more than $6.3 million if all options are exercised.

"Under this order, we are providing technical and program management support to sustain the Defense Message System for the Air Force," said Mike Masters, vice president of Xacta Messaging Solutions for Telos. "We are excited about this win and look forward to supporting the DMS Program Management Office with a complete suite of services, from Certificate Authority Workstation operation and Directory Service management to the help desk and additional administrative functions associated with DMS functionality."

"This is a vital project from the Air Force's perspective, because it is crucial that we sustain the system on which all Air Force organizational messaging rides," said Mr. Thomas Emerson, DMS Program Manager, 754th Electronic Systems Group.

DMS was developed to replace AUTODIN, the post-World War II-era bulk messaging system that enabled users to ship electronic memos via military message centers. AUTODIN, as a point-to-point, serial interfaced system is much slower and less capable than DMS. The second generation of DMS, the Xacta Automated Message Handling System (AMHS) is Web-based and currently deployed enterprise-wide by the Air Force, greatly simplifying configuration management, system administration and the customer interface to the Department of Defense record messaging system.

About Telos Corporation

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 Secure Networks and Xacta([R]) security solutions ensure that the government's most security-conscious organizations comply with demanding federal and DoD information security mandates. Offerings include enterprise IT security management solutions, enterprise security consulting services, secure networks, secure enterprise messaging, and secure identity management solutions. Telos and Xacta solutions are represented to the federal government on Telos' GSA schedule. For more information, visit www.telos.com.

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