Baltimore Technologies has been chosen as a member of the consortium picked to upgrade the Australian defence force’s communications network.
The consortium will provide secure communications and e-business solutions to the 90,000 Australian soldiers through the so-called e-Defence project.
Under the deal, Baltimore will provide e-security services in a deal valued at over one million Australian dollars (euro 600,000) that is expected to be recognised overseven months from June to year-end.
The aim of the e-Defence project is to give a modern and integrated infrastructure to protect important operational communications.Every soldier will be given a digital certificate that has been generated using an accredited public key infrastructure.
These digital certificates will allow personnel to uniquely sign and encrypt their electronic correspondence, giving this e-correspondence the same assurance and legal status as a signed, paper-based letter.
E-Defence will be the largest such information security project in the Southern Hemisphere.