Vendors here said they expect the United Kingdom to issue a solicitation for commercial satellite communications to serve its section of Kosovo soon. The Army has just kicked off a recompetition for the Tactical Commercial Communications Contract held by Sprint to serve U.S. Army camps in Bosnia and Hungary. The contract has two base years and three option years, a period of time that, if not forever, certainly is a lot longer than the politicians ever said the United States would have forces in Bosnia. Sprint, under the direction of Mike Mooney, developed an extremely sophisticated commercial communications package consisting of phone switches and routers housed in shelters with satellite terminals. That made Sprint the Army's phone company and Internet service provider in Bosnia.
Sprint intends to compete for the contract.
This sure shows that Unisys knows how to adapt its C3 savvy to the changing world. Now that's marketing. The exposition floor here was abuzz with a couple of high-level personnel changes in the federal units of Sprint and Qwest. Gus Gloe, who used to handle NASA and Asynchronous Transfer Mode marketing for Sprint, has left to join former Sprint-ite Jim Payne at Qwest.