This federal contract award was made by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to Level 3 Communications, LLC, a subsidiary of Lumen Technologies, Inc. (doing business as CenturyLink). The $126,510.67 Firm Fixed Price purchase order is for the provision and maintenance of 10 gigabit per second fiber optic network services to support the DISA's Integrated Ethernet 1 (IE1) backbone connectivity between locations in Fort Drum, New York and Syracuse, New York. This contract is not designated as a small business set-aside. As a large telecommunications provider, Level 3 Communications has been awarded over $200 million in federal contracts to deliver wired telecommunications, broadband, and fiber optic network services in support of critical defense, civilian, and intelligence community programs across the U.S. government.