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Subject: U.S. Air Force Award of the ULANA Contract
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Date: 27 Sep 88 12:46:43 GMT
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     The Electronic Systems Division (ESD) of the U.S. Air Force 
is pleased to announce the award of the Unified Local Area 
Network Architecture (ULANA) contracts.  The ULANA contracts 
consist of a integration and test contract to be managed by ESD 
at Hancsom AFB, MA, along with an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite 
Quantity (ID/IQ) contract to be managed by Air Force 
Communication Command (AFCC) Engineering Installation Division 
(EID) at Tinker AFB, OK.  Two awards have been made: one to 
Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Corp of Bethesda, MD; and one to 
TRW Information Networks Division of Torrance, CA.

     ULANA represents a major advance in Air Force networking as 
it establishes an Air Force standard for Local Area Networks.  
The ULANA program is providing the vehicle to purchase the 
components and engineering services to assist in integration, 
while the computer systems and LAN media will be provided under 
existing AF contracts.  

     The ULANA program will provide a full range of LAN equipment 
for Air Force use.  Over 200 different LAN components and related 
engineering services with a maximum value of approximately $150 
million will be orderable under the ULANA contracts.  

     The ULANA program will provide standardized Local Area 
Networking components based on the IEEE 802.3 standard and the 
DoD suite of protocols (TCP/IP, Telnet, FTP, SMTP, UDP, ICMP) The 
components available from the ULANA contract will minimize 
"unique" LAN implementations within the Air Force and permit 
interconnectivity between Air Force standard computer systems.  

     The computer systems that will be supported include Amdahl/
IBM with MVS, IBM with VM, Sperry 1100 with OS 1100, DEC Vax/
MicroVax with VMS, Zenith Z-150, Z-200, Z-248, IBM XT, IBM AT 
Sperry PC40 with MS DOS and Xenix, Cromemco CS-220 with UNIX, 
Gould 9050 with UTX 32, Honeywell with GCOS and NCR WS3000/
Burroughs XE520 with CTOS/BTOS.  

     Other equipment provided under the ULANA contract include 
terminal servers, bridges, DDN gateway, LAN encryption and 
media attachment units.  The media supported by the ULANA 
components include baseband (both 10base2 and 10base5), dual 
cable broadband, single cable broadband, fiber, and twisted pair.  

     The initial test and integration contracts will be conducted 
at a testbed located at Gunter AFB, Alabama.  The test phase will 
last eight months during which an Approved Products List (APL) 
will evolve.  After the products have been qualified and placed 
on the APL, the components will then be orderable through the EID 
by Air Force users.  The dual award will provide a much larger 
selection of similar components to better fit each user's needs.