*** The Department of Veterans Affairs issued a $725 million task order to AT&T for network modernization including wide area networking, virtual private networking and managed network services. The task order made under the $50 billion governmentwide Enterprise Infrastructure Services contract vehicle was awarded in September 2020, according to data in the Govwin contracting database, and was just announced this week.
*** The U.S. is increasingly reopening and more employees are returning to their offices. Washington Technology's Nick Wakeman assembled a group of government contractors to learn how they are applying lessons learned to create a "new normal" in business operations. Read more in WT.
*** FCW's Network Modernization Workshop is tomorrow, June 9, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. ET. Registration is free for government employees and military personnel, so sign up and tune in to hear from the General Services Administration's leads for the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions transition, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's 5G experts, and transformation leaders from the Departments of Education and Labor, the Defense Information Systems Agency, Customs and Border Protection and more.