Business Weekly - Cambridge, UK

Autonomy will provide its Intelligent Data Operating Layer Server (IDOL) to support defence applications, it said. Shares in the company rose 8.5p or 1.23 per cent to 697p on the news.

The company's digital information mining technology is already used by US Department of Homeland Security, NASA and the US Air Force.

The firm has also been issued a special security arrangement (SSA), under which, the group's Verity unit will hold clearance for for better services to the DoD, US intelligence agencies and the large systems integrators such as Lockheed Martin and BAE who service the agencies.

June has been a productive month for Autonomy: The US contract was accompanied by the announcement of an OEM agreement with 3D software specialist Dassault Systèmes, while it also unveiled a tie-up with Unisys in the UK intelligence and investigative sector and a software licence agreement with Deutsche Bank group.

Autonomy has already collaborated with Unisys to enhance the capabilities of the Home Office Large Major Enquiry System (HOLMES).

HOLMES has been crucial in many recent high-profile operations such as the Soham murder enquiry, the 7/7 bombing investigations and Tsunami responses, and is proposed to be used to provide security for the 2012 Olympics.

Under the terms of their new arrangement, Autonomy and Unisys will create a joint sales task-force, combining Autonomy’s world-leading software with Unisys’s specialist integration competencies for the UK investigative and intelligence sector.