[58582] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NPR morning news apparently just reported...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Fri May 23 17:35:08 2003
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 16:34:02 -0500
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org, woody@pch.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0305231332160.17244-100000@paixhost.pch.net>
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on 5/23/2003 3:33 PM Bill Woodcock wrote:
> > According to this article, yes they were involved with
> > AWCC:
> > http://www.afghanwireless.com/news_6apr.html
>
> Ouch. If they were responsible for AWCC, that would hardly seem to be a
> basis for awarding them another similar contract.
AWCC is the permanent Afghan network. The network MCI is building in Iraq
is a temporary local network for use by the reconstruction teams.
I can't find anything that says whether this was awarded by USAID or by
the Pentagon directly. If the former, then this is likely to be a
subcontract under Bechtel.
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