Verizon Public Sector wins FENS contract worth over $2B

Verizon Public Sector announced a 15-year critical infrastructure contract with the Federal Aviation Administration worth over $2B to design, build, operate and maintain the FAA’s next-generation communications platform. Under the terms of the Federal Aviation Administration Enterprise Network Services, or FENS, contract, Verizon will build the FAA an enterprise network to support all of the agency’s mission critical applications across the National Airspace System, which includes providing Air Traffic Management to more than 45,000 flights and 2.9 million airline passengers traveling across the more than 29 million square miles that make up the U.S. national airspace system.