US FAA awards Verizon $2.4 bln contract for telecom network infrastructure

WASHINGTON: The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Thursday it awarded Verizon Communications’ business networking unit a contract worth up to $2.4 billion over 15 years as the agency looks to modernize its systems.

Verizon will design, build and operate the FAA’s new next-generation communications platform. The telecom company said it will “build the FAA a dynamic, highly available and secure enterprise network to support all of the agency’s mission critical applications across the National Airspace System.”