SOCOM’s TACLAN IT Contracts
Feb 11, 2013 18:18 UTC
Special forces are even more reliant on excellent communications infrastructure, and on help desk support that can go the extra miles with them. On October 2005, IT consulting firm iGov Technologies, Inc. in McLean, VA received an indefinite delivery/ indefinite quantity contract to design, install, and support US SOCOM’s Tactical Local Area Network (TACLAN) related equipment, as part of the Special Operations Forces Digital Environment (PM-SDE) program. TACLAN provides everything from help desk support, to management and evolution of hardware configurations, to the creation of new software that offers flexible interfaces to communications, databases, and mission applications.
iGovTech created Team TACLAN, based in Tampa, FL, to execute the contract, which included additional industry and academic partners. Until a 2012 award appeared to have placed TACLAN’s near-term future in other hands…