Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!ucbvax!ulana.b.mitre.ORG!ulana From: ulana@ulana.b.mitre.ORG Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: U.S. Air Force Award of the ULANA Contract Message-ID: <8809271246.AA01355@ulana.b.mitre.org.> Date: 27 Sep 88 12:46:43 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 52 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.