EDS lands $97 million deal with European Space Agency

by PegNews wire

That comes out to nearly forty gazillion euros.

EDS hopes to avoid previous European space travel disasters.

PLANO — EDS today announced a new, five-year, $97 million contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) that calls for EDS to manage the ESA’s Corporate Information Technology (IT) Services and related infrastructure.

Collectively, the team will manage the agency’s desktop, messaging and mobile computing environment for more than 4,000 internal users of the Agency, servers and applications infrastructure, and local and wide-area networks.

The group will also provide information and communication technology security, including firewall management, authentication and antivirus services, and help desk services for all internal users, plus over 6,000 external business partners requiring access to ESA information.

Source: EDS