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HP MILITARY

MILITARY AUDIT UPDATED 2026-08-23
Military Score 0.12 /10 B HP - BDS-1000 644
Military 0.12

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Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

HP was awarded a 2009 Israeli Ministry of Defense contract as the exclusive PC/computer equipment provider to the Israeli military, financed substantially through the US Foreign Military Sales program, and renewed in 2014 for three years with an option to extend to 2019 1, 2. In 2011, HP Israel won a NIS 500 million Ministry of Defense tender to manage IDF server farms for the 2011–2016 period 3, 1. Separately in 2009, HP won a contract to provide IT infrastructure and virtualization to the Israeli navy, which was later expanded to a pilot covering all army units 3. HP was also contracted for “tens of millions of shekels” to provide the Israeli army with printers, maintenance systems, and central servers through the end of 2016 3, 2. Following HP’s 2015 corporate split, successor entity Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has continued a direct contracting relationship with Israeli security bodies: an ongoing Israel Prison Service server/storage maintenance contract runs from March 2025 to February 2026 valued at NIS 445,000 4, and an Israeli Police Data Center Care contract, announced January 2024, is valued at NIS 4 million annually through December 2026 4. In September 2012 HP bid for a further Israeli military infrastructure programme, joining Israeli listed company Electra Ltd. in one of five consortia competing for a NIS 2 billion build-operate-transfer tender to construct and operate an IDF server farm in the Negev - a facility specified to “five-nines” (99.999 percent) availability and forming part of the IDF’s relocation of major bases to the Negev; competing consortia comprised IBM with Shikun & Binui, Dell with Shafir Civil and Marine Engineering and Ness Technologies, Lockheed Martin with RAD Bynet Communications, and Cisco with Malam Team, El Har Engineering and Construction, and EMC 5. AFSC records that the pre-split Hewlett-Packard Company was ranked among the SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing and military services companies continuously from 2008 until the 2015 split, placing 41st in the 2015 edition with $2 billion of revenue from military contracts 1. Outside Israel, HPE was reported on 25 November 2025 to have won a ten-year, $931 million contract from the US Defense Information Systems Agency to deploy HPE GreenLake private cloud across Department of Defense data centres under the Distributed Hybrid Multi-Cloud programme, supporting multi-tenant isolation of sensitive workloads and on-premises, air-gapped execution of defence operations judged unsuitable for public cloud 6. No evidence was found of HP or HPE listed as an exhibitor or exporter in the Israeli Ministry of Defense’s SIBAT Defense and HLS export directory 7.

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

The available reporting on HP’s Israel-linked contracts describes standard commercial PCs, printers, and servers supplied under Israeli Ministry of Defense and IDF procurement arrangements, rather than ruggedized, mil-spec, or tactical hardware variants engineered specifically for security-force deployment 3, 1. No public evidence identified of HP manufacturing or marketing dedicated tactical/military-variant product lines for Israeli end-users, and no export licence applications or end-user certificates specific to HP dual-use sales to Israeli defence or security end-users were located.

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

No public evidence identified of HP heavy machinery, vehicles, or construction equipment linked to demolition, checkpoint, or barrier construction; NGO reporting on this equipment category names Caterpillar, Volvo, JCB, Hitachi, Hyundai, and Doosan Bobcat, not HP. HP and HP Enterprise did, however, provide technology solutions to Israeli settlements, including a 2005 “Smart City” pilot in Ariel comprising disaster-resilient data storage and municipal wireless systems, and further technology deployment in Modi’in Illit 3, 8. DXC Technology, the successor to HP’s Enterprise Services division, operated a research-and-development center in the Beitar Illit settlement - originally established by EDS in 2006, relocated in 2012, held by DXC from 2017, and retained by DXC after it sold EntServ Israel to Ness Technologies in 2022 - Who Profits records the Beitar Illit centre as remaining under DXC rather than transferring with that sale 9, 10, 11. No public evidence identified of direct HP contracts for the construction, maintenance, or physical expansion of checkpoints, detention facilities, or the separation barrier as infrastructure, distinct from the Basel biometric access-control technology documented separately below.

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

No public evidence identified of verified component, sub-system, or specialist manufacturing supply relationships between HP or HPE and Israeli defence primes Elbit Systems, IAI, Rafael, or IMI. No public evidence identified of joint development, co-production, or technology-transfer and licensed-manufacturing agreements between HP and any Israeli defence prime.

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

HPE has held a long-running biometric and population-registry infrastructure relationship with Israel’s Ministry of Interior / Population and Immigration Authority, originating from an 2008 contract worth NIS 230 million, with further recorded contracts in 2014 (extension through 2025, over NIS 223 million combined), 2016 (over NIS 31 million for biometric services), and 2019 4, 12, 2. A current sole-supplier Itanium server contract covers May 2023 to June 2026 at a value of NIS 3,829,410 (approximately USD 818,250) 4, and a further biometric-infrastructure contract for a national digital biometric identification system runs May 2025 to May 2028 at NIS 3,129,750 4 - both spanning the period following the ICJ’s 19 July 2024 advisory opinion. Israel Prison Service contracts held by HP/HPE are recorded across multiple cycles: 2015–2020 (NIS 2,695,268 total), 2020–2022 (over NIS 1 million), February 2023–2024 (NIS 371,856), April 2024 (NIS 364,075), and March 2025–February 2026 (NIS 445,000) 4, 12. Israel National Police contracts are recorded for 2017 (NIS 366,000), 2018–2021, 2021–2024 (NIS 4 million), and the current January 2024–December 2026 term (NIS 4 million per year) 4, 12. No source specifies delivery of these services to installations specifically within the West Bank, Golan Heights, East Jerusalem, or the Negev beyond the general national population-registry, police, and prison infrastructure that by design covers residents of occupied territory, including the historic “Yesha database” recording West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, and Golan Heights resident data 3, 2. No public evidence identified of HP shipping, freight-forwarding, or port-handling contracts specifically servicing Israeli defence logistics or arms shipments.

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence identified of HP or HPE acting as a manufacturer, integrator, or component supplier for small arms, artillery, armoured vehicles, tactical drones, naval vessels, or strategic platforms such as Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow, fighter aircraft, tanks, or ballistic missiles. AFSC does record, without identifying a specific part number, contracting entity, or Israeli end-user, that technology made by Hewlett-Packard Company “has been used in specific weapon systems, such as the THAAD missile system” - a US Army programme rather than an Israeli one 1.

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

No public evidence identified of any government decision by the United States, European Union, United Kingdom, or other jurisdiction to grant, deny, suspend, or revoke an export licence specifically for HP products destined for Israeli military or security end-users. No public evidence identified of arms-embargo or sanctions-compliance enforcement actions against HP relating to Israel. No public evidence identified of an OECD National Contact Point complaint specifically naming HP over its Israel business, or of court proceedings or judicial review specifically targeting HP’s Israel defence-supply relationship. HP’s FY2023 and FY2025 Form 10-K filings disclose general geopolitical risk factors referencing “the Israel-Hamas conflict and other hostilities in the Middle East” and “continued instability in the Middle East,” without disclosing Israel-specific subsidiary operational or defence-contract risk detail 13, 14.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

The Basel biometric checkpoint access-control system was originally developed by EDS Israel under an Israeli Ministry of Defense tender issued in October 1999, financed by the US government following the Wye River Memorandum, with EDS acquired by HP in 2008 3, 15, 9. The system was deployed at roughly nine West Bank checkpoints plus Erez (Gaza) by 2011, expanding to thirteen further checkpoints according to a January 2015 Israeli Ministry of Defense freedom-of-information response, for a total of at least 22 checkpoints 15. It required Palestinians to use magnetic cards embedding fingerprint, hand, retinal, and facial biometric data 3, 1, 16. The contract transferred to HPE following HP’s 2015 corporate split, and the Israeli military retired the Basel system at the end of 2016, replacing it with an in-house-developed system 1, 9. HP separately signed a biometric identity-document contract with Israel’s Ministry of Interior in 2003/2008 (the “Arbel Project”), recording ethnic/religious identity and later expanded to biometric data collection from 2008 1; Who Profits reports this registry was phased out and replaced by IBM’s “Eitan System” as of April 2021 12, though HPE’s ongoing sole-supplier server and biometric-infrastructure contracts running through 2026 and 2028 indicate continued HPE-linked biometric-infrastructure activity 4. HP also contracted in 2007 to develop the Israel Prison Service’s “Kidma” prisoner-management system, providing server maintenance, IT infrastructure, and technical training; reporting states the system separated Palestinian from Israeli prisoners, with Palestinian prisoners subject to differential treatment 1. These contracts have drawn sustained civil-society scrutiny and organized boycott/divestment campaigns from Who Profits 3, 15, 9, 4, 12, AFSC Investigate 1, 17, 18, BDS Movement 19, CJPME 2, the United Methodist Kairos Response 16, War Resisters’ International 20, the European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine (ECCP) 8, and the Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign 21. Institutional divestment or boycott actions documented against HP include the Friends Fiduciary Corporation (2012), a Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly divestment vote (2014), a British National Union of Students boycott call (2014), a University of California Student Association divestment resolution (2015), Dublin City Council’s contract discontinuation and the Unitarian Universalist Association’s divestment (2016), multiple US university divestment resolutions and a boycott pledge by the Students Federation of India (2018), and boycott decisions by UK union Unite and the Netherlands’ Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging (2019) 1. In response to a 2014 ECCP letter, HP’s Human Rights Program Manager Jonathan Bauer stated that “the Basel System referenced in your letter was developed by HP to expedite checkpoint passage in a secure environment” and that “HP adheres to the laws and regulations of the countries it does business with, including restricted party lists” 8. HP CEO Enrique Lores posted a statement on X on 22 October 2023 describing “horrific attacks on Israel and the intensifying hostilities” as “painful and difficult to watch” 22. Electronic Intifada has separately reported critically on HP’s characterization of its checkpoint biometric role as reducing “friction” for Palestinians 23. In a letter dated 30 October 2020 and published on 3 November 2020, over one hundred trade unions, student associations, movements and solidarity groups requested that Hewlett Packard Enterprise be included in the next update of the UN database of businesses complicit in Israeli settlement activity; signatories included Fórsa, described as Ireland’s largest public service union with 80,000 members, UNISON, described as the UK’s largest union with more than 1.3 million members, and Brazil’s Central Única dos Trabalhadores, a national trade union centre with approximately 7.5 million members 24. A 2024 PAX/Don’t Buy Into Occupation coalition report on companies arming Israel and their financiers scoped its analysis to six major weapons producers and did not name HP 25.

Footnotes

  1. https://investigate.afsc.org/company/hp ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  2. https://www.cjpme.org/fs_247 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  3. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/127?hewlett-packard-hp-and-the-israeli-occupation= ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  4. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/3774 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  5. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-1000786513 ↩

  6. https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/25/hpe_scores_931m_dod_cloud_contract/ ↩

  7. https://www.sibat.mod.gov.il/Industries/directory/Pages/default.aspx ↩

  8. https://www.eccpalestine.org/hp-responds-to-the-eccp-letter-on-involvement-in-israels-apartheid-policy/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  9. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/137 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beitar_Illit ↩

  11. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/160 ↩

  12. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/157 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  13. https://s203.q4cdn.com/918857832/files/doc_financials/2023/q4/Q4-23-10K.pdf ↩

  14. https://s203.q4cdn.com/918857832/files/doc_financials/2025/ar/2025-Form-10-K.pdf ↩

  15. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/113?the-israeli-ministry-of-defense-expands-hps-biometric-system-in-checkpoints= ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  16. https://www.kairosresponse.org/why_boycott_hp.html ↩ ↩2

  17. https://investigate.afsc.org/company/hewlett-packard ↩

  18. https://investigate.afsc.org/company/dxc-technology ↩

  19. https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp ↩

  20. https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2014/war-profiteer-month-hewlett-packard ↩

  21. https://www.ipsc.ie/hp ↩

  22. https://x.com/EnriqueJLores/status/1713411137214226508 ↩

  23. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/adri-nieuwhof/hp-spins-israeli-checkpoints-role-reducing-friction-palestinians ↩

  24. https://bdsmovement.net/news/100-unions-movements-and-solidarity-groups-demand-hpe-inclusion-un-settlement-database ↩

  25. https://paxforpeace.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/The-Companies-Arming-Israel-and-Their-Financiers-June-2024.pdf ↩