DISA Eyes Replacement for Hawaii Telecom Network

As the Pentagon shifts its focus to the Asia-Pacific region, the Defense Information Systems Agency has started planning a replacement for its network providing voice, data and video service to Hawaii and voice service to Singapore, Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, and Wake Island in the North Pacific Ocean. The agency is looking for a private sector company that could provide telecommunications services as a follow-up agreement to a $250 million Joint Hawaii Information Transfer System contract DISA awarded AT&T in 2006. That contract expires in 2016.