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Norwegian Defence Procurement Division (NDPD) contracts Thales for a significant extension of its secure information exchange service

02 March 2010

NDPD has signed a new contract with Thales for further development of XOmail, an efficient and fully secure communication system, in order to provide a secure information exchange service for all defence branches.

The goal is to satisfy the need for a secure information exchange service that can be used on all levels in the armed forces; from the headquarters at the strategic level and all the way down to dismounted soldiers or vehicles at the battlefield level. The extended system will also provide interoperability within the Armed Forces (Joint, Land, Sea and Air) as well as interoperability with NATO and other allies.

“Providing secure communication solutions is at the core of Thales’s competences which have been proven through decades. This is a major development contract and we are looking forward to enabling interoperability supporting effective communication, both within the Norwegian Armed Forces and towards allies”, says Glenn Pedersen, Thales’s Vice President in Norway.

XOmail, a fully secure communication system

Thales’s XOmail is a key component in information handling and transfer as part of C4ISR solutions (Command, Control, Communication, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance). Today XOmail is used at the strategic level as the national Military Message Handling System in several NATO nations, as well as at the tactical level in the Norwegian Army and Navy. XOmail offers powerful desk-to-desk messaging functions and Battle Log features.

The system has been developed and adapted to the needs in The Norwegian Armed Forces and other nations for more than 20 years.