GSA, DISA To Make Nice On Satcom?
By
Bob Brewin
Over the past decade federal agencies have been able to buy commercial satellite communication services through either <a href=http://www.gsa.gov/Portal/gsa/ep/contentView.do?contentType=GSA_OVERVIEW&contentId=18882>General Services Administration contracts</a> or those <a href=http://www.disa.mil/satcom/sco/index.html>managed by the Defense Information Systems Agency.</a>
Over the past decade federal agencies have been able to buy commercial satellite communication services through either General Services Administration contracts or those managed by the Defense Information Systems Agency.
But those contracts will expire in 2012 and Bob Lesion, a GSA spokesman, told me that DISA and GSA have agreed on a joint strategy to replace them.
What is the joint strategy? Well, we'll all have to wait until next Thursday, when the two agencies will detail their plans in a conference call, which will include details on future solicitations.
What next. - perhaps joint cloud computing efforts between GSA and DISA?
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