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Home > Cloud Computing > Lumen signs $1.2 billion agreement with USDA

Lumen signs $1.2 billion agreement with USDA

Lumen Technologies announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded the company with a task order worth more than $1.2 billion to modernize and transform IT services.

Erdem Yasar by Erdem Yasar
January 22, 2022
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Lumen Technologies announced that The U.S. Department of Agriculture will work with the company to modernize and transform its IT services across the country and abroad. The task order is worth more than $1.2 billion to deliver a fully integrated wide-area data transport service with secure remote access, contact center, and cloud connectivity solutions to more than 9,500 USDA locations.

100,000 USDA employees

With Lumen’s solutions, approximately 100,000 USDA employees will be able to manage vital farming, food and nutrition, forestry, and rural economic development services effectively. USDA will be able to securely acquire, analyze and act on data closer to where it is collected at the edge of the network with the company’s edge computing architecture and vast fiber connectivity to reduce latency and save bandwidth.

The task will last 11 years, which has an initial term through September 30, 2022, with 10 one-year options, was awarded to Lumen under the General Services Administration’s 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions program. The company will provide managed network, managed security, and voice solutions that support up to 100 gigabits per second, including:

  • software-defined wide area network services (SD-WAN);
  • managed trusted internet protocol services (MTIPS);
  • zero-trust networking solutions;
  • edge computing and remote access solutions;
  • virtual private network services;
  • cloud connectivity;
  • unified communications and collaboration solutions;
  • contact center solutions;
  • voice over internet protocol (VoIP), wireless and satellite services;
  • ethernet transport;
  • optical wavelength solutions;
  • related equipment and engineering services.
Zain Ahmed, senior vice president of Lumen public sector
Zain Ahmed, senior vice president of Lumen public sector

Zain Ahmed, senior vice president of Lumen public sector said,

« One of America’s largest cabinet agencies chose Lumen to securely modernize its network and IT services. We’re excited to help the USDA benefit from today’s digital technologies that are transforming farming into precision agriculture. Lumen is bringing modern technology solutions that will make it easier for the USDA to accomplish its mission of promoting the production of nutritious food that nourishes our people, providing economic opportunity to rural Americans, and preserving our nation’s natural resources through smart forest and watershed conservation. »

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Erdem Yasar is a news editor at Cloud7 News. Erdem started his career by writing video game reviews in 2007 for PC World magazine while he was studying computer engineering. In the following years, he focused on software development with various programming languages. After his graduation, he continued to work as an editor for several major tech-related websites and magazines. During the 2010s, Erdem Yasar shifted his focus to cloud computing, hosting, and data centers as they were becoming more popular topics in the tech industry. Erdem Yasar also worked with various industry-leading tech companies as a content creator by writing blog posts and other articles. Prior to his role at Cloud7 News, Erdem was the managing editor of T3 Magazine.

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