The Israel Ministry of Defense has signed an agreement with Elbit Systems Ltd. for the development and delivery of Digital Army Program (DAP). The amount of the award is approximately $200 million in U.S funds. The DAP program will extend over a 10-year period and will be augmented by U.S. foreign military funding.

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Elbit will serve as prime contractor with Rafael and Tadiran Systems as major subcontractors. The program calls upon the contractors to supply and support the hardware and software for the command and control stations, the data processing and the distribution systems. Elbit Systems will supply the IDF with computerized systems down to the single soldier level.

DAP will facilitate transmission of integrated, real-time situation pictures to and from all battlefield and command echelons. The project constitutes the core of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF’s) ground forces digitization program and reflects the organizational and technological trends in the IDF over the past several years. Within the framework of DAP, all land forces operations will be computerized (command, control, communications), integrated and interfaced with new and advanced applications.