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Future Firecrest tops Foreign Office £686m IT spend
...working on eight multimillion-pound IT projects. The most costly is Future Firecrest, the FCO's next generation desktop system and support services, due for... Read more
Nov 25, 2008
silicon.com > Management > CIO Insights
How tech is making FCO 'more foreign, less office'
...in Athens and The Hague are now up and running on Future Firecrest - and Mather claims they are seeing some of the benefits already. In... Read more
Feb 4, 2009
silicon.com > Management > Public Sector
Foreign Office tech overspend leads to project trimming
...Telecommunications Network (FTN) has ballooned from £180m to £240m, while the Future Firecrest project to upgrade its desktop systems worldwide is expected to cost £26m... Read more
Jul 7, 2008
silicon.com > Management > CIO Insights
Foreign Office signs £6m Microsoft deal
...and efficient IT system", the FCO said. Its desktop system, known as Firecrest, is based on Microsoft software. FCO head of IT strategy Nick Westcott... Read more
Jun 30, 2005
silicon.com > Management > Public Sector
IT hiccups hamper passport issuing at embassies
...230m deal to improve its IT infrastructure, in a project called 'Future Firecrest'. The Foreign Office has also been implementing a new casework management system... Read more
Nov 24, 2005
silicon.com > Management > CIO Insights
HP and Foreign Office in £320m PPP IT deal
...the upgrade of its existing Windows-based global desktop infrastructure known as "Firecrest", which covers 11,000 desktops in FCO locations around the world. HP... Read more
Feb 17, 2005
silicon.com > Technology > Networks
Racal picks up UK Foreign Office messaging deal
...level agreements. The FCO is working on its own automation service - dubbed Firecrest, and based on Compaq hardware and software from Microsoft - and is also... Read more
Jan 26, 1999
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