Dell has scored a $7.1 million contract with the Department of Defence for a hardware refresh for the Royal Australian Navy. The contract, which lasted from 15 April to 14 May, saw Defence purchase hardware from the vendor to the tune of $7,109,125.10 to replace old technologies with unidentified devices. The purchase comes as part of the Fleet Information Environment (FIE) modernisation project, a major overhaul of the IT equipment on the Navy’s ships worth $600 million, which was announced in April 2019.
“This capability is the first step in delivering warfighter networks that are unified in development and operation, creating national and multinational computer networks across the Joint Force and will be achieved through common network design and architecture, software, hardware, support arrangements and applications,” the spokesperson said...MORE
