October 11, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IT infrastructure solutions provider Terremark Worldwide (terremark.com), and its engineering partner By-Light Professional Services (by-light.com) announced on Thursday that it has signed an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with the US Department of Defense.
The company is an exclusive member and the only telecom services provider on the Northrop Grumman (northropgrumman.com) team, one of five defense contractors chosen by the US military to compete for task orders that will be funded by the $15 billion five-year program. The company will provide technology development application for new products and services to defense and federal civilian agencies, state and local authorities, as well as partner nations engaged in counter-drug and counter-narcoterrorism operations.
Terremark and its partner serve as Northrop Grumman's only telecom services provider under the contract for technology insertion, systems integration and systems engineering, product data, information fusion centers, IT networks, configuration management, studies and analysis, IT and communications and network development and deployment.
"Thanks to our experience and success in serving the needs of defense and federal civil agencies, we are prepared to strengthen Northrop Grumman's efforts to assist the US government in fighting narcoterrorism," says Jamie Dos Santos, president and CEO of Terremark Federal Group. "We look forward to providing our combined expertise to all the projects that result from this contract."
