MoD shells out on data transfer tech

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) tech supplier the ATLAS Consortium has awarded software company Infonic an £8.3m contract to provide the MoD with data transfer technology and support.

The MoD will use Infonic's Geo-Replication software, which improves the efficiency of the Microsoft SharePoint server technology, and also receive tech support for the next seven years.

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The supply of the software will account for £4.1m of the contract and will be delivered within 90 days of the start of the contract. The remaining £4.2m will cover maintenance of this technology over the next seven years.

The software compresses data by identifying information that has changed, rather than sending complete files every time. This will make communication between different MoD deployments - such as ships and foreign bases - quicker and more efficient.

The EDS-led ATLAS Consortium supplies the MoD with the technology for its Defence Information Infrastructure (Future) project.

The five ATLAS Consortium partners are EADS, EDS, Fujitsu Services, General Dynamics and LogicaCMG.