David Young, senior vice president of Lumen’s Public Sector and global hyperscaler business and a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding CenturyLink’s recent rebranding to Lumen Technologies. He discussed Lumen’s new initiatives, advanced platform for managing data and applications, and work across government agencies to support real-time decision making. 

CenturyLink has rebranded itself as Lumen Technologies to highlight its renewed mission to support enterprise customers through the challenges and opportunities of the 4th Industrial Revolution, the company announced Monday.

CenturyLink has been named to Military Times’ annual list of top 100 best employers for veterans in recognition of the company’s efforts to provide benefits, programs and support for former military personnel.

The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded a CenturyLink subsidiary a potential $70.2M contract modification to continue to operate and maintain dark fiber and related commercial facilities in support of the Department of Defense.

Intact has secured a five-year contract under the General Services Administration's Information Technology Schedule 70 contract through a partnership with CenturyLink to provide cloud services to government customers.

CenturyLink has received a second task order from NASA to provide network connectivity services to more than 15 space centers and regional research facilities, the company announced Tuesday. The agency issued the task order under the General Services Administration's $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract vehicle.

Hugo Teufel, former chief privacy counsel at Raytheon, has joined CenturyLink as chief privacy officer.

CenturyLink has expanded its fiber network across the nation and plans to continue its growth by integrating faster internet speeds to additional homes and businesses in several cities, the company reported on Tuesday. 

Zain Ahmed, vice president of civilian and law enforcement sales at CenturyLink, has said that COVID-19 disruptions impacted the flow of orders under the General Services Administration’s $50B Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract, Fedscoop reported Tuesday.

CenturyLink senior leaders have said that agencies need to update their network architectures in order to accommodate continuing telework needs in line with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s guidelines, FedScoop reported Monday.

CenturyLink reported financial results for the first quarter that ended March 31, noting net income, adjusted EBITA, net cash and more, on Friday.

CenturyLink is waiving late payments for telecommunications services and suspending customer data caps in line with the Federal Communications Commission’s “Keep Americans Connected Pledge.”

CenturyLink deployed network equipment to facilitate connectivity for a U.S. Navy hospital ship when it docked Friday at the Port of Los Angeles. “When the military reached out to us about providing dockside connectivity to the USNS Mercy with two days’ notice before it arrived in Los Angeles, we quickly put our network expertise to work to make it happen,” said Edward Morche, president of enterprise and government markets at CenturyLink.

Some contractors and experts said they expect to see a disruption in the transition to the General Services Administration's $50B Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions telecommunications contract as federal agencies demand for more telework capacity amid the coronavirus pandemic, FCW reported Wednesday.

CenturyLink has received a five-year contract from Sumter County, Florida to deliver a faster, more effective 911 operating system to modernize the country’s emergency call management system and integrate a Next Generation 911 platform, the company announced on Thursday.