GCN's William Welsh reports that the U.S. Air National Guard has awarded a $5.9 million contract to Telos Corporation "to deploy wireless network solutions as part of a secure wireless local area network build-out."

"The work is part of an implementation of secure wireless local area networks for 25 of the ANG's active wings and regional training centers," Welsh writes. "Under the contract, Telos of Ashburn, Virginia will engineer and install deployable wireless local area network systems for off-base operations in support of military and homeland security missions. Telos also will install a scaled version of the approved wireless network solution at selected ANG sites."

"The installation will feature an 802.11a/b/g compliant architecture for the wireless network and an intrusion detection protocol to guard against unauthorized wireless access and rogue access points," according to a company statement. "Telos is currently midway through the implementation and is slated to complete the infrastructure at all bases in the coming months."

The press release is here.