The Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced a one-year extension to its existing contract with Kyndryl to support its core network infrastructure.

The extension, worth £2.28m, is to enable Defra to continue to bring down its technical debt as it moves to cloud. Kyndryl will be helping Defra modernise and manage the systems that run the department’s critical services to citizens. Aspects of the contract include modernising the Animal Disease Testing Service application and aiding the adoption of tech such as 5G-enabled edge computing and software-defined networking.

Government is a key market for Kyndryl in the UK, as is Financial Services. The firm also recently announced a strategic agreement with Co-operative Bank to migrate existing on-prem applications to Amazon Web Services.

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