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. 

CenturyLink has been tapped as a partner under Microsoft Azure's Networking Managed Service Provider program to assist customers in migrating, linking, managing and augmenting their cloud environments.

CenturyLink is on the lookout for opportunities to help more federal agencies transform network infrastructure assets through the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract vehicle. "We're still waiting for some fairly large agencies to release what they're going to do from an EIS perspective," David Young, senior vice president of CenturyLink's public sector business and two-time Wash100 awardee, told FedScoop in an interview.

CenturyLink has been awarded a 15-year, $470M task order by the U.S. Social Security Administration as a key provider for its Wide Area Network and related high-speed network services, the company announced on Thursday. The task order was awarded via the General Services Administration's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions program. 

The Department of the Interior has awarded CenturyLink a potential $1.6 billion task order via the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract vehicle to provide managed network services to support DOI's information technology modernization efforts, the company announced on Thursday.

Nonprofit technology community Internet2 has tapped CenturyLink to incorporate the latter's low-loss fiber network service in support of modernization efforts for a research and education network.

CenturyLink will work to help California modernize the state's 911 emergency call system under a new agreement with the governor's Office of Emergency Service.

CenturyLink has introduced new features on its VMware-based private cloud platform as well as an integrated cloud offering created with the latter and Amazon Web Services.

CenturyLink has unveiled an emergency call handling service that will allow public safety customers to transfer their call management offerings to the cloud.

Zain Ahmed, vice president of civilian and law enforcement sales at CenturyLink, has been selected by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association's Bethesda chapter as winner of the Industry Innovator of the Year award. He is among the winners for the association's 2019 InnovateIT Awards program, which recognizes individuals or teams that have demonstrated excellence in service, mission and stewardship, AFCEA Bethesda said Monday.