ASHBURN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Telos® Corporation, a leading provider of continuous security solutions and services for the world’s most security-conscious agencies and organizations, today announced that it has been awarded a contract to upgrade the U.S. Air Force (USAF) De-Militarized Zone (DMZ), an agreement worth $26.9 million. With this contract, Telos will provide modification and replacement of an aging DMZ by updating the networking equipment including firewall, intrusion prevention and intrusion detection systems, anti-virus software, web-portal capability and security management.
Telos will perform the work at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia, Beale Air Force Base in California, Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, Ramstein Air Base in Germany and Wichita, Kansas, with plans to complete the upgrade by 2019. Telos has a rich history of providing security services and solutions to military, civilian and intelligence agencies, particularly with its market-leading cyber security and risk management suite, Xacta®.
“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,” said Brendan D. Malloy, senior vice president and general manager, cyber operations and defense at Telos Corporation. “After a competitive acquisition process, we’re proud to be chosen to continue this work.”
Telos also supports the Network Centric Solutions-2 (NETCENTS-2) program, which provides network operations, infrastructure and service-oriented architecture solutions and services to the USAF and Department of Defense (DoD) agencies.
The contract win comes on the heels of a major Telos product update for the Xacta, the next-generation of IT governance, risk and compliance (IT GRC). Deployed in defense, civilian and intelligence agencies across the federal government, Xacta enables enterprises to continuously manage risk and security compliance, as well as automatically manage key elements of security authorizations.
To learn more about Telos, visit www.telos.com.
About Telos Corporation
Telos Corporation empowers and protects the world’s most security-conscious agencies and organizations with solutions and services for continuous security assurance of individuals, systems and information. Telos’ offerings include cyber security solutions and services for IT risk management and information security; secure mobility to protect globally connected organizations; and identity management to establish trust in personnel and continuously monitor for insider threats. Its flagship product suite, Xacta, is an advanced IT governance, risk and compliance (IT GRC) platform with an intuitive interface for managing tasks and configurable executive dashboard for situation awareness. The company serves military, intelligence and civilian agencies of the federal government, allied nations and commercial organizations around the world. For more information, visit www.telos.com and follow on Twitter @TelosNews.
