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Defence Infrastructure Information Project

Volume 494: debated on Monday 15 June 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the cost of the Release 2C stage of the Defence Infrastructure Information Project has been, broken down by budgetary heading; how many desktop terminals have been delivered under the project; and if he will make a statement. (278985)

The Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) programme will deliver a single, secure, coherent and high quality computer infrastructure service across the whole of defence. The associated software functionality is being delivered in stages, called Releases, but I can confirm there is no Release called “2C”. The costs of software releases are not held separately as they are an intrinsic part of the wider delivery nor are they associated with desktop terminal numbers.

The current contract will run until 2015 and is let on an incremental basis. It includes Increment 1, Increment 2a and 2b, which provide office, mobile and deployable capabilities, and in January 2009 we signed a contract extension for Increment 2c, to provide new operational capability in the Top Secret domain. The approved programme costs for Increment 2c are £257 million; the contract element is £191 million at 2008 prices.

The whole DII Programme has to date delivered 75,000 terminals, with 190,000 users now live on the system.