North American Aerospace Defense Command will again use Verizon‘s communications services in this year’s hotline service to help children track Santa Claus. Verizon said Thursday it added 14,000 new augmentations, including 5G cell sites, network-based virtualization and fiber deployments, to support volunteers in answering children’s calls under the NORAD Tracks Santa program. Almost 600 volunteers […] More

Verizon‘s public sector business has booked two contract awards, worth a total of $34.6 million, from the Department of Energy in support of its digital modernization efforts. The task orders, awarded through the General Services Administration’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract vehicle, cover voice and data services across multiple DOE facilities including its headquarters in Washington, […] More

Verizon’s public sector business has won a $78 million task order through the GSA’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract to serve as a technology partner for Naval District Washington. Under the task order, Verizon Public Sector will work at NDW’s facility in Indian Head, Maryland to transition the agency’s Time Division Multiplexing voice platform to an Internet […] More

Verizon’s public sector business has secured five Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions task orders, worth a combined $887 million, from the Department of Labor to modernize the agency’s legacy network infrastructure. The company said Tuesday it will work to drive the adoption of technologies to enhance data, voice, unified communications, video services and enterprise applications for the DOL’s […] More

Verizon‘s public sector business has been selected to install its 5G Ultra Wideband service at seven Air Force Reserve Command locations as part of a Department of Defense award to support the U.S. Air Force’s modernization objectives. The company said Tuesday it will deploy outdoor c-band radios at each of the AFRC installations in California, […] More

Verizon’s public sector business has received a potential $78.8 million task order from the Department of Defense to provide network modernization support services for the Air National Guard’s readiness center. DOD awarded the task order under the General Services Administration’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract, the company said Wednesday. Verizon will provide managed network services and […] More

Verizon Public Sector has secured a $495 million Department of Defense (DOD) contract to deliver a next-generation, high-bandwidth, low-latency, Layer 2 wide area network supporting critical research. The company will provide switch, router, firewall and Edge Compute capabilities to help connect 200 different research, development, test, and evaluation laboratories and High-Performance Computing locations across the […] More

Verizon and Robotic Research have partnered to demonstrate the joint application of a 5G wireless network and a data collection system for an autonomous shuttle pilot program at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego. The 90-day pilot, which is part of the 5G Living Lab initiative on the military installation, will use Verizon’s […] More

Jennifer Chronis, federal vice president of Verizon, has received her first Wash100 Award for driving technology offerings, expanding revenue and partnering with industry leaders to drive digital transformation across the government contracting (GovCon) sector. Executive Mosaic congratulates Verizon Federal and Jennifer Chronis on receiving her first Wash100 Award in 2021. 

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A partnership between Verizon and Avaya will help the Social Security Administration deploy unified communications systems in support of the agency's information technology modernization efforts. “Together with our partners at Avaya, Verizon will support the SSA's mission and deliver critical digital transformation and modernization solutions the SSA needs for the more than 65 million Americans who rely on its services,“ said Jennifer Chronis, vice president of Verizon's federal business.

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Jennifer Chronis has been appointed as head of Verizon's federal business, succeeding Michael Maiorana, the company announced Tuesday. Chronis will begin her new role early next month.

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Jennifer Chronis, general manager for the Department of Defense market at Amazon Web Services, told SiliconANGLE Media's theCUBE in a video interview posted Tuesday that the migration of the U.S. Navy's enterprise resource planning system to AWS GovCloud has enabled the service to facilitate analytics and improve the decision-making process.

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