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Black Box hired to improve Camp Lejeune’s telecommunications

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Lance Cpl. Derek B. Ruffing, front, and Lance Cpl. Vicky Sanchez, back, switchboard operators with Company B, Marine Wing Communications Squadron 28, work in the back of a digital technical control refresh truck aboard MCAS Cherry Point during Exercise Spartan Xiphos, July 31. Switchboard operators integrate the phone network with other systems and make sure calls get to their destination.

Black Box Corporation has been awarded a $17.9 million Marine Corps contract to improve telecommunications at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

Under the contract with the Marine Corps Systems Command Base Telecommunications Infrastructure Program Office, BlackBox will “upgrade and expand the existing telecommunication network architecture and systems to a high availability Unified Communications solution,” according to a company news release.

The contract is part of a Marine Corps effort to globally improve its C4I capabilities.

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Michael Peck is a correspondent for Defense News and a columnist for the Center for European Policy Analysis. He holds an M.A. in political science from Rutgers University. Find him at theuncommondefense.com. His email is mikedefense1@gmail.com.