The U.S. Air Force awarded the cybersecurity/information technology (IT) company Telos Corporation a $27 million contract to upgrade the service’s De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) networking equipment, the company said Wednesday.
Under the contract, Telos will modify and replace the DMZ equipment by upgrading networking equipment like firewall, intrusion prevention and detection systems, anti-virus software, web-portal capability, and security management systems.
The DMZ is a strip of land across the Korean peninsula acting as a buffer zone between North and South Korea since the end of the Korean War.
Telos will perform the work at the Robins AFB, Ga.; Beale AFB, Calif., Langley AFB, Va., Ramstein Air Base in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany and Wichita, Kan. The upgrades are expected to be finished by 2019.
“Telos is committed to providing the highest-level of security services and solutions to the U.S. Air Force, and have done so for decades. After a competitive acquisition process, we’re proud to be chosen to continue this work,” Brendan Malloy, senior vice president and general manager for cyber operations and defense at Telos Corporation, said in a statement.
Telos also currently supports the Network Centric Solutions-2 (NETCENTS-2) program, providing network operations, infrastructure, and service-oriented architecture solutions and services to Air Force and general Defense Department agencies.