Military Audit: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company

Audit Phase: Military Subject Entity: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (NYSE: HPE), and its wholly owned Israeli subsidiary Hewlett Packard (Israel) Ltd. Audit Date: June 2026 Scope: Forensic inventory of any military or defence nexus between Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the Israeli military, security, or defence sector - direct defence contracting, dual-use supply, heavy machinery, supply-chain integration with Israeli defence primes, logistical sustainment, munitions/weapons platforms, export-licensing history, and documented civil-society scrutiny. Evidence only; no scoring or interpretation. Evidence Base: NGO corporate-accountability databases (Who Profits Research Center, AFSC Investigate), UN OHCHR settlements-database material and the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory (A/HRC/59/23, 2025), BDS National Committee and trade-union campaign material, the Communist Party of Israel / Maki, defence and technology trade press, and corporate disclosures. All claims carry an inline reference marker; source URLs appear only in the End Notes.

Entity note. Hewlett-Packard Company split on 1 November 2015 into Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE; enterprise servers, storage, networking, services) and HP Inc. (HPQ; personal computing and printing). Several Israeli security and military activities of the pre-split Hewlett-Packard entity - notably enterprise-services and server contracts originating with EDS Israel / “HP Enterprise Services” - were carried into HPE after the split.¹² Where the public record attributes an activity to the pre-split “Hewlett-Packard” entity or to HP Inc., this is stated explicitly. Findings below concern HPE and Hewlett Packard (Israel) Ltd. unless otherwise noted.

Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

HPE has a documented direct contracting nexus to the Israeli military. In July 2024 it was reported that HPE had been selected by the Israeli military to lead a new military server farm project, under which HPE would supply the hardware for the farm and manage the selection of the construction company; the facility was reported to be located underground.³⁴ This is the most recent documented direct military procurement relationship and is recorded by the Who Profits Research Center on its HPE company profile.³

HPE’s military IT-infrastructure relationship is longer-standing. AFSC Investigate documents that the Hewlett-Packard lineage contracted in 2006 to administer Israeli military IT infrastructure, beginning with a pilot for the Israeli Navy (the branch that enforces the naval blockade of the Gaza Strip), and that the contract was expanded in 2009 to “virtualize” the entire Israeli military’s systems.² AFSC further records that the company was, for a multi-year period, the exclusive server provider to Israeli military and security forces under a contract repeatedly extended until 2017.²

HPE’s wholly owned subsidiary, Hewlett Packard (Israel) Ltd., provides servers, software, maintenance, and services to multiple Israeli state security bodies - the Israel Police, the Israel Prison Service, and the Israeli population-registry computing systems - under contracts documented by Who Profits and AFSC Investigate.²³⁵

Israel Police. Who Profits / AFSC record HPE supplying servers (described as enclosure servers, blade servers, and “pizza” servers), software, and maintenance with dedicated engineering support across police operational systems; documented contracts include a January 2024 award of approximately NIS 4 million extending support through December 2026, and a March 2021 award of approximately NIS 4 million for proactive maintenance.³⁵ AFSC notes HPE provided endpoint stations and software to the Israel National Police from 2004, and that the Border Police branch operates in the occupied Palestinian territory under military command.²
Israel Prison Service. AFSC records that HPE developed the Kidma system used by the Israel Prison Service to manage incarcerated persons, and that HPE remained contracted for server maintenance; Who Profits documents continuing maintenance of equipment in the Prison Service’s central server farm and backup facilities, including storage systems and SAN switches, with awards including approximately NIS 364,075 (April 2024) and NIS 445,000 (March 2025, through February 2026).²³

The report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, From economy of occupation to economy of genocide (A/HRC/59/23, dated 2 July 2025), names Hewlett Packard / HPE as having long-term involvement in providing technology to the Israeli military, police, and prison systems, and states that the group’s opaque corporate structure - including remaining Israeli subsidiaries - has obscured accountability.⁶⁷

No public evidence identified of HPE appearing in SIBAT (Israel’s Defence Export and Defence Cooperation Directorate) directories as an Israeli defence exporter; HPE’s documented role is as a foreign technology supplier to Israeli military and security end-users, not as an Israeli defence-export entity.⁸

For context only (non-Israeli): HPE holds US Department of Defense IT contracts, including a US$931 million ten-year award announced in November 2025 for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to modernise data centres using HPE GreenLake private cloud.⁹ This is a US domestic defence relationship and does not implicate Israeli military supply chains; it is noted to establish HPE’s positioning as a defence-IT vendor.⁹

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

HPE’s general-purpose enterprise hardware - servers, storage, and networking - is the product class documented in the Israeli military and security contracts above; these are commercial IT goods deployed within military computing, command, and records infrastructure rather than purpose-built tactical variants.²³

The Basel System is the clearest documented case of HPE technology configured for a security/military control function. The pre-split HP / HP Enterprise Services lineage developed, installed, and maintained the Basel automated biometric access-control system - using hand scanners and facial-geometry recognition to identify Palestinians at Israeli military checkpoints and to administer the Palestinian worker-permit regime.²¹⁰¹¹ Under a 1999 Israeli Ministry of Defence tender, EDS Israel (later merged into HP) developed, installed, and field-supported the system; it was confirmed operational at more than 20 checkpoints including Jericho, Bethlehem, Jenin, Nablus, Tulkarem, Hebron, Abu Dis, Tarkumia, Eyal, Irtach (West Bank) and Erez (Gaza), with installation from 2004.¹⁰¹¹¹² Who Profits reported, on the basis of a Ministry of Defence freedom-of-information response, that the Basel System was terminated at the end of 2016, after which there were no active HP maintenance contracts for it.⁵¹¹

No public evidence identified of HPE marketing a formally designated mil-spec or ruggedised tactical product catalogue to Israeli end-users, or of HPE producing targeting, fire-control, or guidance electronics calibrated for kinetic military effect in the Israeli context.

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

HPE does not manufacture heavy machinery, earthmoving equipment, construction vehicles, or civil-engineering plant; this product category is not part of HPE’s portfolio.

No public evidence identified of HPE-branded heavy machinery or construction equipment being placed in settlement construction, separation-barrier works, checkpoint construction, or military-installation construction in the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights.²³

One construction-adjacent element appears in the July 2024 military-server-farm reporting: HPE was reported to manage the selection of the construction company for the underground military server-farm facility, while supplying the hardware itself.³⁴ The act attributed to HPE is hardware provision plus contractor-selection management for a military data facility, not the supply of heavy machinery or construction plant.³

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

No public evidence identified of HPE supplying components, sub-systems, raw materials, or specialist manufacturing services to Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, or IMI Systems as named inputs to a weapons programme. No joint development, co-production, or licensed-manufacturing agreement between HPE and any Israeli defence prime was identified in the reviewed corporate filings, NGO investigations, or defence trade press.²³⁶

HPE’s documented integration is with Israeli state military and security bodies (the military server farm, military IT virtualization, police, prison service, population/biometric systems) rather than with private Israeli defence prime contractors.²³

Tier-2/3 caveat. It is publicly known that defence primes globally use commercial server and storage hardware of the HP/HPE product lineage for internal IT; no primary source was identified naming HPE as a component supplier within a specific Israeli prime’s weapons-system supply chain, and such generic internal-IT use would not itself constitute weapons-system integration.²

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

HPE’s documented sustainment of Israeli military and security operations is in the form of IT systems administration, server maintenance, and managed technical support rather than catering, fuel, transport, or facilities services.

AFSC and Who Profits document HPE administering Israeli military IT infrastructure (from the 2006 Navy pilot and the 2009 whole-military virtualization), and providing ongoing server maintenance with dedicated engineering support teams to the Israel Police and Israel Prison Service, including maintenance of central server-farm and backup facilities.²³ The July 2024 military server-farm selection extends this sustainment role to a new dedicated military data facility for which HPE is to supply and, by implication, support the hardware.³⁴

No public evidence identified of HPE providing catering, transport, fuel supply, waste management, or physical facilities-management services to IDF bases or detention facilities, or of HPE acting as a shipping/freight/port operator for Israeli military cargo.²³

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

HPE is not a prime contractor or licensed manufacturer of small arms, artillery, armoured vehicles, unmanned aerial systems, naval combat vessels, or any other lethal kinetic platform; this falls outside HPE’s published business scope.² No public evidence identified to the contrary.

No public evidence identified of HPE manufacturing or supplying ammunition, explosive ordnance, propellants, warhead components, or munitions-precursor materials to any end-user.

No public evidence identified of a verified HPE role in the manufacture, system integration, maintenance, or named component supply of Israeli strategic platforms - Iron Dome, David’s Sling, the Arrow (Hetz) system, the F-35I, Merkava main battle tanks, or Sa’ar-class corvettes. HPE’s documented military nexus is to computing, networking, records, and surveillance/control infrastructure rather than to weapons-system components.²³⁶

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

No public evidence identified of any government decision in any jurisdiction - United States (Commerce/BIS, State/DDTC), United Kingdom (ECJU), or EU member states - to grant, deny, suspend, or revoke a defence or dual-use export licence specifically for HPE products destined for Israeli military or security end-users. HPE’s commercial server and networking hardware is generally low-restriction (EAR99 or low-ECCN) commercial IT equipment, a classification that does not ordinarily generate individually published licence records for sales to Israel.²

No public evidence identified of any enforcement action, penalty notice, or formal citation against HPE for arms-embargo, export-control, or sanctions non-compliance in connection with defence trade with Israel.²³

No public evidence identified of court proceedings, judicial review, or shareholder derivative action brought against HPE specifically concerning its military or security supply relationship with Israel.²⁶

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

NGO & Investigative Databases

Who Profits Research Center maintains an active HPE company profile categorising the company under “Population Control,” “Specialized Equipment and Services,” and “The Wall and Checkpoints,” and documenting the July 2024 military server-farm selection together with active server, software, and maintenance contracts with the Israel Police, the Israel Prison Service, the Population and Immigration Authority, and the national biometric database.³⁵ Who Profits has published multiple reports across the HP/HPE lineage, including documentation of the Ministry of Defence Basel System maintenance contracts and updates on HPE’s current involvement.⁵¹¹

AFSC Investigate maintains a company page for “Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co (HPE),” screening it under “Discrimination” and documenting the 2006/2009 military IT-administration contract (Navy pilot, then whole-military virtualization), the Kidma prison-management system, police technology provision, the Basel biometric checkpoint system, and population-registry/biometric ID involvement.²

UN Mechanisms

The UN Special Rapporteur report A/HRC/59/23 (2 July 2025), From economy of occupation to economy of genocide, names Hewlett Packard / HPE among technology corporations involved in Israel’s military, police, and prison infrastructure, and criticises the opacity of its corporate structure across remaining Israeli subsidiaries; the report situates HP/HPE alongside Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, and Palantir in its analysis of technology provision.⁶⁷

As of the UN OHCHR settlements database update of 26 September 2025 (listing 158 enterprises from 11 countries), neither HPE nor HP Inc. is named in the database.¹³¹⁴ A coalition of more than 100 trade unions, movements, and solidarity groups (letter dated 30 October 2020) has campaigned for HPE’s inclusion, citing HPE’s provision of servers to the Israeli Population and Immigration Authority for the population register, including the “Yesha database” recording Israeli citizens in settlements.¹⁴

Campaigns

The BDS National Committee maintains a “Boycott HP” campaign citing the HP/HPE lineage’s role in Israeli military IT (including the Navy programme), the Basel checkpoint system, prison-service data centres, and the population registry, and notes that following the 2015 split each successor entity (HPE, HP Inc.) - and the related spin-off DXC Technology - must independently demonstrate compliance.¹⁵ War Resisters’ International previously named Hewlett-Packard as a “war profiteer,” documenting the military IT and Basel checkpoint activities.¹⁶

Corporate Response

No public evidence identified of an HPE policy statement, end-use-monitoring commitment, contract termination, or supply-chain review specifically responsive to civil-society pressure regarding its Israeli military or security supply relationships, beyond standard general export-compliance language.²³