Avon and Somerset Police Authority has joined Southwest One, a joint venture to transform the services provided to the Constabulary and the communities it serves. In an agreement worth up to £185 million over ten years, the Police Authority joins the joint venture with IBM (NYSE: IBM), Somerset County Council and Taunton Deane Borough Council, which linked up in October last year.

The U.S. National Security Agency has awarded IBM (NYSE: IBM) a technology and services contract for the High Assurance Platform (HAP) program. NSA and IBM will work together to design and develop the next generation of high assurance workstations, servers and pervasive computing technology. The contract, awarded in the fourth quarter, has an estimated contract value of $9.4 million over 15 months.

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has announced a new contract to provide network services to Fairwinds Credit Union, a financial services organization that has headquarters in Orlando and a network of 32 branch locations throughout Florida.

Two South West Authorities have signed a contract to create a new Joint Venture company with global business services provider, IBM (NYSE: IBM), at a total value of approximately £400 million over ten years.

Avaya Inc. a leading global provider of business communications applications, software and systems, today announced that Black & Decker has selected Avaya Intelligent Communications to power the company’s communications.