Company Overview
Red Hat supports the Department of Defence’s secure, agile and integrated capabilities through open source innovation. As a strategic partner for the organisation’s core digital needs and to the Defence Industry ecosystem, Red Hat offers secure platforms for continuous innovation while helping manage critical infrastructure.
Products and Services
The DoD already uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux® as the secure operating system foundation for the Single Information Environment (SIE). The continuing use of this enterprise-hardened solution will ensure the organisation’s integrated IT environment remains resilient, secure and compliant—from core to edge.
Red Hat OpenShift® offers a trusted, consistent platform for developing, deploying and managing cloud-native, intelligent and virtualised applications across Defence’s multi-cloud environments. The platform accelerates capability acquisition and enhances operational efficiency, driving innovation in mission-critical operations.
Red Hat Ansible® Automation Platform is a unified solution for strategic automation. It includes everything needed to scale automation across domains, orchestrate essential workflows, and optimise IT operations to adopt enterprise AI—supporting Defence’s drive for efficiency and resilience.
Major Projects
- Other
Other Projects
Red Hat software is used in many domains across DoD – from enterprise networks to assisting the warfighter at the edge.
Capabilities
- Information and Telecommunications
Other Capabilities
- Interoperability: Red Hat’s hybrid cloud platforms modernise infrastructure for scalable, flexible and interoperable environments, meeting Defence’s need for a robust ICT backbone with enterprise-ready, open architectures.
- Modernisation: Red Hat’s renowned technologies can be swiftly integrated to modernise Defence’s infrastructure. This will ensure that the DoD’s ICT environment is built on proven and globally recognised technologies.
- Productivity: Red Hat OpenShift supports hybrid environments, enhancing operational capabilities while accommodating cloud-native and traditional virtual machines. This will help Defence rapidly deploy AI-enabled applications to the edge.
- Partnerships: Red Hat’s commitment to open source and local partnerships strengthens Australia’s defence by advancing military technologies. We can enable the DoD to build stronger sovereign capabilities, powered by innovation and collaboration.
