The Defense Commissary Agency, or DeCA, has selected E&E Enterprises Global, a provider of information assurance services, to provide a HughesNet network system to support its commissaries worldwide. The contract award is valued at $12m and is for a term of one-year, with three one-year options.
Hughes Network Systems will provide the VPN service to E&E Enterprises Global as a subcontractor, utilizing its HughesNet broadband satellite service.
Under the terms of the agreement, E&E Enterprises Global and Hughes will provide a turn-key commercial, off-the-shelf managed terrestrial and satellite broadband network service. In doing so, E&E Enterprises Global and Hughes will ensure the continuity of DeCA business functions such as point of sales; debit and credit card transaction authorizations; just-in-time product ordering; shipping; receiving; invoicing and billing; e-mail; as well as payroll and personnel management in commissaries worldwide.
Tony Bardo, assistant vice president of government solutions at Hughes, said: This managed broadband network solution will help support DeCA in its mission to provide premier quality-of-life benefits to the Armed Forces. We are looking forward to working with E&E Enterprises Global and DeCA to implement Hughes’ proven managed broadband network service in this effort.
