LGS Wins $6.3 Million IMOD Contract to Upgrade Networks at Fort Sill and Fort Richardson

LGS, a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU) dedicated to serving the U.S. government community, announced today the award of two delivery orders, totaling $6.3 million, with the United States Department of the Army to provide network integration and professional services for communications infrastructure upgrades at U.S. Army installations. The delivery orders involve communications network upgrades at Fort Sill in Oklahoma and Fort Richardson in Alaska.

The awards are under the Infrastructure Modernization (IMOD) contract and are in support of the Installation Information Infrastructure Modernization Program (I3MP) managed by the Project Manager Network Service Center (NSC) at Fort Monmouth, N.J. PM NSC upgrades and modernizes core data backbone and telecommunications infrastructure at Army installations worldwide.

"LGS is pleased to continue to deliver high-quality communications upgrade solutions to the U.S. Army through our IMOD prime contract,” said Ron Iverson, CEO, LGS. "In both of these projects, LGS will deliver critical logistic support and project management while satisfying sophisticated technical requirements to ensure that the quality, performance, cost and schedule goals are met.”

At Fort Sill, LGS will provide all labor, supervision, management, tools, materials, equipment, facilities, transportation and design to upgrade the Fort’s data network.

At Fort Richardson, LGS will deliver a complete turn-key technical refresh of the Fort Richardson Campus Area Network (CAN). This implementation will position Fort Richardson for the future with 10GbE Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) capabilities and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) readiness.

LGS has delivered similar network solutions in the continental United States, Europe and in the Asia Pacific (APAC) Theater at the Fort Hawaii enclave and at Fort Wainwright in Alaska, delivering the first 10-Gig MPLS architecture for the Army. As the first integrator implementing and deploying MPLS for the U.S. Army, LGS has a unique track record for delivering this state-of-the-art technology while minimizing risk to its government customers.

LGS was one of ten prime contractors selected for the IMOD contract, which has a total ceiling of $4 billion dollars. The IMOD contract replaced the telecommunications switch modernization effort of the Digital Switched Systems Modernization Program (DSSMP). IMOD aims to provide integrated, secure communications systems for Army installations and relies heavily on network transformation and migration to newer technologies.

LGS and its predecessor organizations have a dedicated team of people who have been working with the U.S. Army for more than 15 years.

About LGS

LGS, a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent, designs and delivers Transformed Communications and R&D-based technology solutions to the U.S. government community. Leveraging the world-class R&D of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, with global reach and expertise, LGS challenges itself to solve the unsolvable and deliver secure, reliable, standards-based solutions to its customers. LGS, is headquartered in Vienna, Va., in the US and with offices in Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey and North Carolina. For more information about LGS visit www.LGSinnovations.com.