AT&T Scores $1 Billion Contract To Rebuild DOJ Systems

AT&T Scores $1 Billion Contract To Rebuild DOJ Systems

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190730/08181842675/att-scores-1-billion-contract-to-rebuild-doj-systems.shtml

AT&T is increasingly becoming one of those companies that's so bone-grafted to the government, it's getting harder to determine where the telecom giant ends and the government begins. Reports have already explored how AT&T is effectively fused to the NSA; the company provides the government widespread access to every shred of data that traverses its network, and its employees can often be found acting as government intelligence analysts.

Granted after some early concerns about corruption, AT&T has also been tasked with building the nation's $47 billion emergency communications network, FirstNet. And this week the company also netted a new $1 billion, fifteen-year contract to rebuild the Department of Justice's computer systems: