NEC wins $150m Centralised Processing support contract

NEC Australia has been appointed as a key member of a team led by Lockheed Martin Australia to provide critical technical and monitoring support throughout the Department of Defence’s Centralised Processing Project.

The A$150 million contract will involve the transformation and consolidation of multiple data centres located across Australia and International locations to a centralised set of core data centres to increase efficiency and reduce costs.

“Lockheed Martin Australia will partner with Defence and a number of innovative Australian-based enterprises such as NEC to deliver effective and efficient information technology infrastructure and services critical to supporting Defence business and military operations,” Lockheed Martin Australia chief executive, Raydon Gates said.

Centralised Processing will establish a single, integrated capability for the management and provision of data centre facilities, infrastructure and services for Defence’s Unclassified, Restricted and Secret information security domains.

NEC Australia will be responsible to Lockheed Martin Australia for maintaining the stability and efficiency of Defence systems as the project consolidates from within 280 data centres across Australia and at international locations to a centralised core consisting of 11 facilities within Australia and three located overseas.

Specifically, NEC Australia will assist to re-host its applications in the transformed facilities and will coordinate with Lockheed Martin Australia and Defence to decommission and dispose of legacy data centre equipment throughout the transition to the new operating environment.

During the transition to the new environment, NEC’s operations team will assume responsibility for Defence’s Business As Usual infrastructure, including mid-range servers and storage systems.

NEC Australia will also continue to operate the new environment until the end of the project.