For release: 02 Oct 2007
EDS-Led ATLAS Consortium to Deliver Additional Phase of the Defence Information Infrastructure (Future) Contract
UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) approves an amendment to the Defence Information Infrastructure (Future) (DII(F)) Contract
PLANO, Texas – The EDS-led ATLAS Consortium today announced that the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD) has approved an amendment to the Defence Information Infrastructure (Future) (DII(F)) contract, confirming that ATLAS will deliver DII Increment 2b, which extends DII(F) into the deployed – military operations – environment. This is a further element of the 10-year contract awarded in March 2005, to modernize and create a single coherent MoD information infrastructure.
The ATLAS Consortium comprises EDS as lead contractor, tier 1 partner Fujitsu Services and key sub-contractors General Dynamics, EADS Defence and Security Systems and LogicaCMG.
The contract amendment enables EDS to increase its previously stated estimates for revenue from the MoD DII(F) contract to 2015 by US$489 (£269) million.
Increment 2 of the DII programme is comprised of three elements:
- Increment 2a, a further tranche of workstations in the office (Fixed) environment;
- Increment 2b focusing on the deployed environment; and also,
- Increment 2c at Above Secret classifications.
Increment 2b provides Defence Information Infrastructure services into the most unique and challenging of environments – that of military operations. Increment 2b will operate at the SECRET classification level, meeting exacting security and usability demands, to include the provision of 3,300 user access devices (UADs) to support deployed operations, of which 1,900 will be in the land deployed and maritime environments. To meet with the levels of services demanded of the mission critical planning and operational command and control systems that DII(F) will support, a world class service management and support mechanism will be developed to ensure services and operational imperatives are met.
About The ATLAS Consortium
The ATLAS Consortium is responsible for delivering the Defence Information Infrastructure (Future) project for the UK Ministry of Defence. ATLAS is led by EDS, with Fujitsu Services as a Tier 1 partner, General Dynamics, LogicaCMG and EADS Defence and Security Systems Ltd (Cogent) as Tier 2 partners, and IBM and HP as capability partners, amongst others. ATLAS was awarded the contract for Increment 1 of DII(F) in March 2005, with a budget of approximately US$4.0 billion (£2.3 billion) and Increment 2a of DII(F) in December 2006, with a budget of approximately US$1.27 billion (£0.73 billion).
About EDS
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