Verizon bags $2 billion FAA deal

US operator Verizon has secured a lucrative deal to overhaul the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s networks.
The 15-year FAA Enterprise Network Services (FENS) contract is worth more than $2 billion, and will see the telco design, build and operate a new communications platform that can support all of the agency’s mission critical applications. That includes providing air traffic management (ATM) to the 45,000 flights carrying 2.9 million passengers across the 29 million square