NATO wants a cloud it can trust under fire. Its technology agency has signed a contract worth about €200 million with Accenture and Italy’s Leonardo to build one. Accenture announced the deal on Tuesday, struck at the NATO summit in Ankara.
NATO calls the programme the Protected Business Network. It will give the Alliance a single, classified cloud environment where commanders and staff share data and coordinate across every domain. The pitch is resilience: a system built to keep running when attackers try to knock it down.
What the deal covers
Accenture and Leonardo will design, build and run the core platform over seven years, on a multi-cloud setup that NATO’s agency provides. It will reach roughly 29,000 users across the Alliance. The North Atlantic Council has approved it as an Alliance-wide capability.
The plan swaps NATO’s patchwork of legacy systems for a common cloud model and standard engineering. New digital services should then ship faster. Leonardo brings a Zero Trust security design and its own AI multi-agentic platform for cyber defence.
