The role of the Defence Information Infrastructure Integrated Project Team (DII IPT) is to ensure delivery and support of a single information infrastructure to serve defence, replacing separate or TLB-specific systems currently in use.

MISSION

To deliver to defence a secure and coherent information infrastructure at minimum whole-life cost whilst maintaining continuity of service.

VISION

One information infrastructure
 

The provision of one information infrastructure is the responsibility of the IPT’s delivery partner, ATLAS, a consortium of companies comprising EDS as the prime contractor, with Fujitsu, General Dynamics, EADS and LogicaCMG as key sub-contractors. They will assume control of existing individual systems and progressively replace them with the new infrastructure. This will provide a standard, consistent platform for defence applications and a more effective environment for the sharing of information and transmission of messages.

DII(F) is one of the largest information infrastructure programmes in Europe. It will provide a computing infrastructure and services that will enable sharing of information and collaborative working to a variety of groups and individuals including those that currently have limited or no connectivity. Ultimately it will provide around 300,000 user accounts on approximately 150,000 terminals across about 2,000 MoD sites worldwide.

Not only does the delivery of DII capability represent a major output in its own right, it also plays a significant part in the delivery of, and as a catalyst for, the Defence Change Programme. DII will be central to transforming the capability of the Armed Forces by providing Network Enabled Capability through a single network of information. It will extend into the operational arena, interface with battlespace systems and improve shared information between headquarters, battlefield support and the front line, allowing greater interoperability between the MoD and its allies.

DII, is being delivered in Increments to provide packages of work that are managerially and financially coherent. Increment 1 will provide DII(F) to around 70,000 desktops and 200,000 user accounts, focusing on Restricted and Secret DII(F) services in fixed locations. Increment 2 looks at Deployed services and services to the Above Secret environment. The service ranges geographically from the office environment in Whitehall to forward deployed Headquarters anywhere in the world. In service management terms it ranges from 24/7 cover to ordinary office hours support.

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