Defence finally ditches XP for Windows 10
Summary
The department contracted Leidos for the migration, which saw 100,000 Defence personnel receive a new "contemporary end user environment", for a cost of AU$67.6 million over a three year term. A statement from Assistant Minister for Defence David Fawcett said Leidos has been contracted to provide ongoing sustainment support for Windows 10, including "maintaining a reliable and secure ICT capability, and managing access to applications for users". Defence announced earlier this month that Leidos had been appointed as the Prime System Integrator to deliver the first tranche of Joint Project 2096 Phase 1. For a cost of AU$500 million, the first tranche of Joint Project 2096 is expected to see Leidos integrate selected intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance data and applications. The Department of Defence told ZDNet it has highlighted at least 14 use cases for its on-premises version of IBM Watson to use artificial intelligence to gain valuable insights out of its data.