Motorola awarded $23.8M contract from Department of Defense

Motorola Solutions was awarded a $23.8 million contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to sustain the U.S. Navy’s enterprise land mobile radio (LMR) system.

The LMR system is used to coordinate the deployment of the first responder community at Navy bases. The LMR system connects Navy emergency services and other federal, state, and local agencies involved in public safety. Inter-agency coordination is key to reducing the loss of life and property during emergencies.

“We are proud to provide mission-critical communications infrastructure and services to the U.S. Navy,” said Mark McNulty, vice president and general manager, U.S. Federal Government Markets, Motorola Solutions. “Land mobile radio provides the reliable and interoperable communications that are essential to ensuring the safety of our service members at Navy facilities around the world.”

The contract contains four options, which, if exercised, would increase the value to $93.6 million.

Motorola Solutions will provide several services, including preventive maintenance of hardware and software, technology and software upgrades, equipment repair and replacement, management of software licenses and currency, asset and configuration management, password management, and vulnerability scanning and benchmark testing. The primary work is expected to be finished by December 2020. If all the contract options are exercised, work will continue through June 2023.