After thirteen year, ACP 123, “Common Messaging Strategy and Procedures", has been updated to Edition B. ACP123(B), dated May 2009, is now the effective standard for CCEB Nations, replacing ACP123(A) dated August 1997.

The NEDS procurement have issued amendment 11 and extended the bid submission date from 6th November 2009 to 3rd March 2010. This is in regard to the invitation of bids by the NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency (NC3A) for the support of the NATO Enterprise Directory Service (NEDS) Phase 2.
The intention of this project is to provide services for the filtering and synchronisation of information between the various NATO directories.

Isode, the developers of high performance messaging and directory service software, have announced that they will be adding a new product,
M-Link Edge, to their R14.6 which is scheduled for release in March 2010.

In recent work conducted by NATO and the nations to find solutions to meet the complexity of label harmonization, it has been realized that the use of equivalentLabels provides increased flexibility to support label harmonization.

Version 1.1 of the Implementer's Guide for STANAG 4631 has consequently made the support for the RFC 2634 Enhanced Security Services equivalentLabels signed attribute mandatory.

A management team has bought the Clearswift Specialist Products Division which will trade as Deep Secure Ltd.

Boldon James, a wholly owned subsidiary of QinetiQ, have announced they are to join the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) membership program.
Boldon James will bring to TSCP more than twenty years of experience in serving defence and government agencies worldwide.

The aim of TSCP is to meet the ever increasing need to ensure the protection of secure information for its network of government agencies, aerospace and defence companies and software vendors.