The Department of Defence has approached the market for a major upgrade of the IT systems, applications and infrastructure that support Royal Australian Navy ships and submarines.
The department used its first week back in the office to call on suppliers to deliver hardware and software for its $600 million fleet information environment (FIE) modernisation.
It follows an industry briefing for the upgrade – which received first pass approval more than two years ago – late last year.
The existing FIE is used throughout the Navy’s fleet to exchange information both within ships and between different vessels across both classified and unclassified networks.
Dubbed SEA 2273, the project will deliver a “modern, cyber-worthy, multi-enclave information system” to the Navy across four classification levels: secret, protected, official and coalition.
The new secret, protected, official and coalition (FIS-SPOC) solution will be developed using a modular design architecture to ensure the solution can be upgraded in the future.
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