He added that the bid was 'heavily weighted on how you would manage the network and provide security around the network.'

'We were told that we were superior in both management and technical and that we represented the best value to the government,' Forbes said of his OneNet team. Subcontractors include Accenture, General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corp. Verizon Business is the prime contractor for OneNet. We think this deal goes right to Verizon's sweet spot.' 'There's a huge om what they were doing in the past as separate agencies before they were part of DHS. 'The Department of Homeland Security is looking for a partner to help them build, manage and secure their global network for these 22 agencies,' says Marlin Forbes, regional vice president for Verizon Business' Federal Defense & International Services. Verizon also is providing DHS with a new offering dubbed Emergency Communications Services, which helps agencies respond to man-made and natural disasters with mobile communications equipment. Verizon Business says it is building a special security operations center for OneNet. OneNet will be a common, secure Internet Protocol-based network that supports more than 5,000 DHS offices worldwide. Verizon Business will create a consolidated backbone network for the 5-year-old DHS to replace separate wide-area networks used by its 22 agencies, including Customs Service, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Coast Guard, Secret Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Losing bidders on this much-anticipated deal were AT&T and Qwest. Department of Homeland Security that is valued at $678.5 million.

Verizon Business has captured one of the largest federal network deals of 2008: a 10-year contract to provide managed network and security services to the U.S.

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