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Nato HQs to get millions injected into tech upgrade
…collaboration was key to contract

By Nick Heath

Published: Wednesday 16 January 2008

Nato is to spend €4.2m upgrading tech systems at its headquarters.

EADS Defence & Security will install an IT system to serve 1,200 administration and support staff at two Nato headquarters in Germany and one in the Netherlands.

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The system will see EADS Defence & Security providing hardware such as workstations, laptops, local networking hardware and storage systems and installing the system and providing training.

EADS said the key factor in winning the contract has been its collaboration with its strategic partners - HP for IT equipment and Cisco-Systems for network components.

In 2006, EADS Defence & Security - with around 23,000 employees - achieved revenues of &euro5.9bn, with EADS as a whole generating revenues of €39.4bn and employing a workforce of about 116,000.