Pentagon phone system to go VoIP

A major renovation to the Pentagon has taken a VoIP twist. The Department of Defense has awarded General Dynamics an $18.4 million contract to design and deploy a VoIP phone system as part of what's called the Wedge 2-5 stage of the Pentagon's modernization program. The 4 million square-foot project is intended to modernize building systems, increase security and upgrade technology in the world's largest office building. The VoIP contract is meant to provide a building-wide multimedia phone system integrating voice, video and data communications-in both secure and non-secure channels. VoIP not secure? One hopes there will be an unclassified White Paper someday about how the Pentagon made IP telephony more secure than some thought possible.

For more about the Pentagon's coming VoIP phone system:
- read this FCW.com article [1]

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