The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has selected CGI to provide an intelligent customer team for the UK PICASSO programme.
Under a contract initially set to run for 23 months, the company’s team will provide support for the agency in systems engineering, architectural skills, IT service management, and scaled agile framework (SAFe) for the programme.
PICASSO is an MoD programme to deliver a geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) capability for UK defence. This enables commanders and military forces to understand, plan, navigate and identify targets.
The PICASSO Allied System for GEOINT (P-ASG) family of projects delivers production capabilities for imagery intelligence, geospatial analysis, and the production and provisioning of maps, charts, and other foundational geographic information.
Accelerate transformation
Simon Read, vice president for UK and Australia secure advisory services at CGI, said: “Our expert team will help accelerate the digital transformation of defence intelligence and help deliver significant improvements to PICASSO ASG, including service transition, cloud migration and more efficient ways of working.”
The company will be supported by industry partners Apache ix, Atkins and i3works.
The deal marks a further step in the implementation of PICASSO. In November of last year it was reported that intelligent automation and analytics company Leidos had won a three-year contract to deliver a GEOINT capability with initiatives to modernise infrastructure, storage and end user access.
