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News Release 10-01-2009
Engineering Services Network, Inc. (Corporate Press Release)

Veterans Affairs Awards ESN $12.5 Million Contract to Stregthen Enterprise Network Security

ARLINGTON, VA – Engineering Services Network Inc. (ESN), a trusted leader in engineering and technology solutions, announced today that it has been awarded a $12.5 million contract from the U. S. General Services Administration (GSA) under the GSA VETS GWAC to support the Department of Veterans Affairs, Field Security Operations (FSO), Network Security Operation Center (NSOC) Critical Infrastructure Protection Service (CIPS).

The contract, which began in September 2009, is for one base year, plus four option years.

Under the contract, ESN provides Network Security Support Services centering on Security Event Information Management for Computer Network Defense. ESN officials said all work will be conducted at VA facilities in Hines, IL, and Falling Waters, WV. The VA NSOC is primarily supported by a “Tier III” 7 X 24 X 365 Service Desk to aid in fulfilling its IT Service Management goals. This will be ESN’s second technology support contract for the VA.

“As a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, we at ESN are honored to be entrusted by GSA and the VA to support this mission-critical task,” said ESN President and CEO Raymond F. Lopez, Jr. “More than 60 percent of ESN employees are veterans, so we appreciate the important role of the VA and the need to protect their constituent’s personal information and the systems that deliver their benefits.”

ESN is part of a team assembled by the VA to deliver Managed Security Services to monitor and manage both network and host-based Intrusion Protection Systems. These services include nationwide antivirus platform support, testing, monitoring, detection, and prevention for over 250,000 desktops, laptops, and workstations at the Falling Waters, WV, facility. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) “soft” certificate management security support is performed at the VA facilities in Falling Waters, WV, and Hines, IL, and includes PKI call center support, analysis, and the maintenance of the knowledge management database supporting nationwide certificate management, PKI-enabled servers and applications throughout the VA enterprise.

Under this new task order, ESN will assist the VA in improving the way security services are provided. The VA’s vision through this ESN task is to provide an integrated, one-stop security Network Security Services Support solution to enable users to receive security services through a Service Desk that serves as the single point of contact.

“This new VA task is an important and logical extension of work ESN has been doing in support of multiple DOD customers for well over a decade in the areas of infrastructure engineering and information assurance, and is a step forward in ESN’s corporate strategy to become a VA leader in both of those core competencies,” said Gregory Allen, ESN Executive Director for Veterans Affairs and Small Business.

Inc. magazine named ESN one of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. in 2009 and 2008, and among the top 100 fastest growing defense contractors in the U.S. in 2007. ESN also was listed in 2009 among the top 500 Hispanic-owned companies in the U.S.

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