LGS Innovations has won a $49 million contract to upgrade the U.S. Army’s Main Communications Facility (MCF), which is designed as a state-of-the-art commercial communications operations center serving the central information systems hub for the region.
“LGS deploys the most advanced, state-of-the-art communications technologies available to both defense and civilian organizations,” said LGS Innovations CEO Kevin Kelly. “This opportunity to upgrade and modernize such a mission critical piece of infrastructure for the U.S. Army will not only support our military and warfighters abroad, but will also help the Federal Government to continue to provide for homeland security and overcome future overseas communications challenges.”
As part of the Department of Defense’s IMOD initiative, LGS, an independent subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent, was selected as the exclusive contractor to engineer, furnish, install, test, and secure the Army’s extensive network, transmission, and voice infrastructure in Southwest Asia. The MCF will house 9,000 square feet of usable equipment room space. The company will also execute a critical cutover of transmission circuits as well as design, develop, furnish, and install a virtualized infrastructure.
