Tuesday, Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS) -led ATLAS consortium said that the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence has approved an amendment to the Defence Information Infrastructure contract, or DII. The company noted 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. Increment 2b provides Defence Information Infrastructure services into the most unique and challenging of environments that of military operations.
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.
EDS noted that the contract amendment enables EDS to increase its previously stated estimates for revenue from the MoD DII(F) contract to 2015 by US $489 million.
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