Qwest Communications^® International, Inc. is ranked #54 on the Washington Technology Top 100 Federal Prime Contractors List for 2007.

We are proud of this ranking, just as we are proud to serve our Federal government customers.

The Qwest Government Services Division provides complete communications solutions for the U.S. Federal Government - the most discriminating customer in the world. Qwest is the carrier of choice for over 50 agencies and system integrators including:

Department of Treasury
National Science Foundation
Department of Energy
Department of Labor
Federal Aviation Administration Telecommunications Infrastructure (FAA FTI)
GSA Connections

Department of Treasury

The IRS Web site (www.irs.gov), designed and hosted by Qwest, is how the IRS deals directly with Americans daily - and especially at tax time. The site offers continuity, ease of use and powerful search capabilities. Qwest works around-the-clock for the IRS site, which ranks number 1 on the Lycos 50 and Google search rankings at tax time. Throughout the year, it ranks in the top 50, often ahead of "Britney Spears," "Harry Potter," and "Star Wars" as search terms!

Visits to the U.S. Treasury Web site (www.treas.gov), designed and hosted by Qwest, have increased from 800,000 to more than 2 million per week over the past year alone. To insure customers’ ability to access the site, even in the heaviest traffic, the Treasury trusts Qwest’s 10-Gbps Synchronous Optical Network OC-192 backbone. Regular users include law enforcement agents, financial services professionals and the American public.

The U.S. Mint Web site (www.usmint.gov), hosted by Qwest, utilizes Qwest's highly reliable network availability, backed by industry-leading Service Level Agreements, high-capacity bandwidth and mirrored east coast/west coast data centers for geographical efficiency. World-class technology gives the Mint virtually unlimited network space to interact with consumers and businesses. Sales have grown exponentially through its online presence. The US Mint recorded its first $1 million month in May 1999, its first $1 million week during July 1999, its first $1 million day on October 18, 1999, and its first $1 million hour - with $2.7 million in sales - on April 13, 2000. The Mint anticipates online sales of more than $125 million this year, placing it among the nation's top e-tailers.

National Science Foundation
Qwest provides the network backbone (at 40 gigabits per second) for scientific research sites at the National Science Foundation’s TeraGrid project, a multiyear effort to build and deploy the world’s largest, fastest distributed computing infrastructure for open scientific research. The unprecedented bandwidth - roughly 10 million times the speed of a typical dial-up Internet connection, and four times faster than existing research networks - is making the next generation of scientific breakthroughs possible in fields as varied as biomedicine, global climate and astrophysics.

Department of Energy
Qwest continues to meet the Department of Energy’s demand for bandwidth, which has doubled each year since the inception of the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet). By 2005, the entire network will be upgraded to OC-192, connecting more than 35 major research sites across the country. Scientists use ESnet in research to explore new sources of energy, understand our genetic makeup, develop new materials, analyze global climate change and study fundamental scientific questions in physics, biology and chemistry.

Department of Labor
Qwest was awarded the first Crossover contract and the first multi-tiered Security Profiles (MTSP) contract under the General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Technology Service (FTS) program. Working with the Department of Labor (DOL) Employment Training Administration (ETA) on both contracts, Qwest provides ETA with a disaster-recovery solution: data storage, back-up on- and off-site and complete network redundancy to maintain availability and minimize vulnerability for the agency’s operating environment.

Federal Aviation Administration Telecommunications Infrastructure (FAA FTI)
Qwest is a network provider for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI) program under Harris Corporation, the prime contractor. Qwest and FTI will replace the aging network with advanced technology that meets the FAA’s increasingly complex operational and mission support requirements, including the enhanced security features needed today. Qwest’s dedicated program management team works to makes the transition to FTI transparent for users while ensuring safety, efficiency and reliability of the network.

GSA Connections
Qwest is a network provider for the General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Technology Service (FTS) CONNECTIONS as a subcontractor to SAIC, and other system integrators. The CONNECTIONS contract offers great flexibility to customers while providing larger scale voice, data and video systems; wire and cable management; wireless; billing and account management; and customer service and technical support, simplified under just one contract.