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Australian Defense Wants to Partner With ICT Industry

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Friday, January 22nd, 2010

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Earlier this month, the Australian Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Support the Hon. Mike Kelly announced that Defence is inviting the information and communication technologies (ICT) industry to assist in providing future Defence central ICT services and terrestrial communication services. This follows an approach to industry in November 2009 when Defence invited information responses for the provision of certain distributed communications services to gauge the level of interest should Defence offer a firm business opportunity. Kelly said that procurement activity for…

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