| USA. Coast Guard awards Telos with contract to provide Xacta Automated Message Handling System |
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| Wednesday, 20 September 2006 | |
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Coast Guard news: The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded Telos(R) Corporation a contract to provide a secure enterprise-wide messaging system for its 45,000 users. The contract establishes Xacta(R) Automated Message Handling System (AMHS) as the enterprise messaging solution for the Coast Guard and is valued at a minimum of $600K. Contract options could potentially raise the total contract value as high as $3.0M over 4 years. The AMHS solution, developed by Telos' wholly owned security solutions subsidiary Xacta Corporation, is an encrypted Web-based system that is fully scalable to support thousands of concurrent users, allowing them access to a secure messaging infrastructure without requiring additional external identification. Users will include, but are not limited to, Coast Guard Commands ashore and underway. "The Coast Guard came to us with very detailed specifications for their messaging solution," said Frank Whitehead, Senior VP of Operations at Telos Corporation. "Clearly security and scale were top priorities, as were reliability and support. As Telos already provides secure messaging for the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force, we were well positioned to meet the stringent requirements of the Coast Guard." The Automated Message Handling System is used widely throughout the Department of Defense. Currently, Telos provides state-of-the-art secure messaging solutions across all branches of the military. Similarly, the U.S. Coast Guard AMHS provides the capability to: securely send and track official communications for command and control electronic messaging; transmit messages from one organization to another; provide orders or direction to the receiving organization; and transmit officially recognized intelligence information. Under the terms of the contract Telos will engineer, install, and support the integration, operation and maintenance of the AMHS solution. |
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