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FDM lands multimillion contract with FiReControl
...Rescue Services. FDM will be the prime supplier of training for the FiReControl project, which aims to consolidate emergency fire comms in England into nine... Read more
Mar 18, 2008
silicon.com > Management > Public Sector
Fire service IT project delayed and £70m over budget
...urgent" action after the projected budget for the IT section of the FiReControl system swelled from £120m to £190m and its finish date slipped from... Read more
Jan 7, 2008
silicon.com > Technology > Hardware
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
...for overseeing a shake-up of national fire service tech. The £380m FiReControl project to build nine networked high-tech fire brigade control centres will... Read more
Jun 10, 2009
silicon.com > Management > Public Sector
IT problems delay fire control centres
...network for England has been delayed due to IT problems. The £380m FiReControl project to build nine networked high-tech fire brigade control centres, whose... Read more
Nov 27, 2008
silicon.com > Management > Public Sector
£200m firefighting tech contract awarded
...during major incidents and in the event of one centre failing. The FiReControl project will use satellite positioning to tell control operators which fire engines... Read more
Mar 8, 2007
silicon.com > Technology > IT Services
telent wins £25m firefighters' comms contract
...with a modern and efficient comms system. The project is known as FiReControl. telent will provide comms infrastructure to the nine control centres and also... Read more
Oct 10, 2007
silicon.com > Special Features > Programme Management
Why so many public sector IT projects fail
...have much room for improvement. But in a recent report for its FiReControl project, which is designed to consolidate emergency contact centres for the Fire... Read more
Mar 14, 2005
silicon.com > Management > CIO Insights
Billion-pound Fire Service modernisation row re-ignites
...control rooms for the fire service could double to £2bn. The £1bn FireControl project is being run by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister... Read more
Aug 26, 2005
silicon.com > Management > CIO Insights
Fire service strike threat over £1bn high-tech control rooms
...up and running by the middle of 2008 as part of the FireControl project being run by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM... Read more
May 16, 2005
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