Dutch Ministry of Defense signs contract for modern and flexible IT
Push Release printed by the Dutch Ministry of Protection (in Dutch below) :
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State Secretary Barbara Visser of Protection signed a contract with IBM, on behalf of the industry consortium Athena (IBM / Atos / Unica) to start off in 2021 with the realization of a renewed, long term-proof IT infrastructure. Focus will be on the IT infrastructure-pieces that have the most additional worth for operational steps. The Ministry of Protection provider units are carefully associated in this.
The Groundbreaking IT (GrIT) system is intended to deliver a completely renewed IT infrastructure for Protection. GrIT will acquire and comprehend a trusted, protected, long term-proof and adaptable IT infrastructure and products and services for the future 10 several years.
“Technological innovation and the intelligent use of data play a crucial job for Protection,” suggests Secretary of State Barbara Visser. “GrIT stems from this necessity and provides for the renewal of the IT spine of Protection.”
The electronic transformation is an important component of the Protection Eyesight 2035. “GrIT is considerably far more than a renewal of an data procedure”, claimed liable director Ron Kolkman. “There will be a completely new, extremely advanced IT infrastructure, which ought to transform the armed forces into a high-excellent, data-driven group.”
The work will start off in the 1st quarter of 2021. In the 1st 1.5 several years the design of new details centers will start off (prepared duration 20 months) as properly as the renewal of the network for sending extremely categorised data (prepared duration 12-24 months). The realization of Defense’s personal cellular network will also start off (prepared duration 11 months).
Very best of equally worlds
Thanks to the rapid pace of IT innovation, Protection is coming into into a strategic partnership with the industry. By way of this strategy, Protection can reply rapidly and structurally to new developments and improvements.
“In accordance to our planning GrIT will be rolled out in seven several years,” explains State Secretary Barbara Visser. “And by doing work with the industry, we can receive the ideal out there technology. We are heading to work with combined groups, to mix the ideal from Protection and the industry in order to get the ideal consequence. With GrIT, Protection will soon have its personal cellular network, making it independent of other get-togethers. That is a very strong stage for an group like ours, which operates globally beneath complicated situations.”
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