FSH EFOJ 2020_76_Redacted.pdf

Control No: 2020-76 Contractor: AT&T Mobility National Accounts, LLC

Program/Equipment: FirstNet Wireless Services

Version – September 2018 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

5. Reason for Authority Cited: The Army is required to obtain wireless services and devices from the Navy Spiral 3 MAS as a mandated strategic source. Navy Spiral 3 is a multiple award MATOC with multiple contractors to include AT&T. AT&T is the only MATOC Navy Spiral 3 contract holder with FirstNet devices and services because it was awarded an exclusive contract from the Government (FirstNet Independent Authority within U.S. Department of Commerce) to provide the national Public Safety Broadband Network known as FirstNet. Therefore, AT&T is the only Navy Spiral 3 holder that can provide the required service of a Public Safety Broadband Network known as FirstNet. This contractor is the only provider of the Public Safety Broadband Network known as FirstNet that provides guaranteed device priority, preemption and integration for first responders who utilize this network. Furthermore this network will be hardened as needed from the physical security perspective and will be resilient, secure and highly reliable from the network perspective. FirstNet will utilize (and provides) all available types of bandwidth and integration methods to provide connectivity during catastrophic or critical incidents. This lack of communications interoperability has been documented in numerous real world findings. Other services claim to have the same capability, but real world execution has proven these services don’t provide first responders priority, preemption or a means to integrate that service with first responder land mobile radios, GIS tracking, asset tracking, Common Operating Picture and more.

a. Scope: To execute an enterprise fielding of FirstNet enabled devices with annual subscription to activate and operate the devices on the nationwide public safety broad band network at 73 locations throughout the Strategic Support Area (SSA). The devices would be provided with all the required accessories and already uploaded with five preferred FirstNet Apps for first responder utilization as listed in order: 1) ArcGis, 2) AskRail, 3) MutalLink Edge, 4) 10-21 Video on Demand, and 5) PocketCop. FirstNet is an independent authority within the U.S. Department of Commerce, not to be confused with the AT&T FirstNet devices and services. Authorized by Congress in 2012, FirstNet’s mission is to develop, build and operate the nationwide, broadband network that supports first responders’ mission to save lives and protect U.S. communities.

FirstNet is developing the first nationwide public safety broadband network to provide first responders the advanced communication and collaboration technologies needed during critical emergencies, especially while working in a unified capability with multiple agencies responding to an event. On 28 March 2017, AT&T was awarded a 25 year exclusive contract through Department of Commerce for FirstNet services in the United States. The contract was awarded utilizing full and open competitive procedures which resulted in a single award to AT&T to provide Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network (FirstNet memo, 16 April 2018). Under this contract, AT&T gave its Public Safety Broadband Network the name FirstNet. FirstNet wireless services in support of the Department of Defense (DoD) are only available from the U.S. Navy Spiral 3 contract awarded to AT&T as the mandatory source. On 28 September 2018 DoD Deputy Chief Management Officer signed into effect a policy that requires all DoD components, including Army, to procure unclassified wireless mobile devices and services utilizing the Department of the Navy’s indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, multiple award contract. On February 2019, the Army issued ALARACT 015/2019

Control No: 2020-76 Contractor: AT&T Mobility National Accounts, LLC

Program/Equipment: FirstNet Wireless Services

Version – September 2018 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

1) Reduced first responder communications capabilities delays Medical Evacuation, Fire, Emergency Medical Services, Security, and Police response to the entire installation to include training ranges due to communication gaps. An integrated, redundant FirstNet interface to LMR can mitigate this communications deficiency with improved coverage area, multiple means of connectivity, and direct interface with LMR that will improve response measures.

2) Installations are the Army's epicenter from where our military capabilities are projected to meet worldwide requirements. The strength of installations resides with our ability to create and project combat power to the tactical point of need. Installations are part of the Strategic Support Area (SSA), where military might is generated, projected and sustained during the fight. IMCOM installations require quality infrastructure to support operations, and to protect Soldiers, families, equipment, and our networks. The Army must be able to mitigate threats generated from our adversaries whether from land, sea, air or cyberspace within the SSA. Army installations must have the infrastructure, facilities, communication networks and equipment to meet future challenges that include the enemy obstructing the Army from deploying out of the homeland. Today’s threats are changing. The National Defense Strategy explains that the homeland is no longer a sanctuary. Installations must be resilient to challenges facing our infrastructure and services, and our protection of the SSA must be updated to match the role of installations in the Strategic Support Area. Failure to implement first responder communications updates such as FirstNet may create mission failure in a “Contested Mobilization/Deployment” environment within the SSA. The enemy will seek to obstruct, cut or eliminate communications systems to stop deployment; therefore, the protection of these installations must include multiple and redundant means of first responder communications that integrate with existing communications systems, but yet can operate independently.