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Let's shine a light into the public sector IT money pit
Comment For instance, the Ministry of Defence failed to appoint a senior responsible owner - a move which it said contributed to the late delivery of a £2.4bn project to provide Bowman digital radios to troops. [17 Aug 2009]
Labyrinthine IT systems lose MoD almost £300m
News The NAO report also found the MoD unable to account for £155m-worth of Bowman secure radio systems being used by Army personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan. Failings in computer systems used by the Ministry of Defence led to... [21 Jul 2009]
MoD inks £231m deal to boost comms
News The deals cover upgrading the UK Armed Forces' Bowman digital radios comms system and improving interoperability with other UK and Allied systems. The Bowman radios have been used in MoD operations since... [03 Jul 2009]
UK troops sheltered from friendly fire by £3m tech
News The Cids will pull together location data from more than 15 different networks, including GPS feeds from within the Bowman radio and data network used across the UK's armed forces. UK troops are to be protected against... [09 Feb 2009]
Photos: Virtual war tests new technology
Photo The Combat Infrastructure Platform (CIP) and its Bowman digital radios (hence Bcip) were first accepted into military service in 2004. In a small field near Portsmouth, a war has been raging for the past couple of weeks. [14 Jun 2007]
£2.4bn battlefield radios slammed by MPs
News The Combat Infrastructure Platform (CIP) and its Bowman digital radios were first accepted into military service in 2004. The £2.4bn Bowman and CIP contracts were won by General Dynamics in 2001 and 2002... [07 Mar 2007]
Battlefield network to give troops high-tech edge
News The Bowman tactical system will feed information into Falcon, which will link back to UK headquarters in real time using the Skynet 5 satellite communications system. Drayson said, along with the Bowman... [06 Jul 2005]
Security industry gathers for London pow-wow
News Nick Bowman, PR and Analyst manager at McAfee (540), told silicon.com: "McAfee has found InfoSec to be an excellent opportunity to engage with customers, indeed it has exceeded sales lead targets for several years. [25 Apr 2005]
Police force drops face-recognition system
News Lisa M Bowman writes for CNET News.com A police department in Florida is ditching a controversial facial-recognition system, saying it has not helped them catch even one criminal. The system, which scanned faces in a... [22 Aug 2003]
SCO profits turn up heat in Linux legal battle
News Lisa M Bowman writes for CNET News.com SCO Group claims it has enough money to continue waging its intellectual property fight with Linux vendors after reporting a profit this week. The company said profits were $3.1m... [15 Aug 2003]
File-swappers happy to ignore legal threats
News Bowman writes for CNET News.com File-swappers are ignoring the recording industry's attempts to enforce copyright online, according to a survey. More than two-thirds of Americans who swap songs online don't care whether... [04 Aug 2003]
Porn bill reins-in peer-to-peer firms
News Lisa M Bowman writes for News.com In a crackdown on the spread of pornography among underage surfers, a bill introduced late last week in the US would require file-swapping companies, such as Kazaa, to get parental... [28 Jul 2003]
SuSE cosies up to SAP
News Bowman writes for News.com Linux seller SuSE is to team up with business software powerhouse SAP to offer a new set of support services for its corporate customers. The new support deal between the two companies is aimed... [24 Jul 2003]
SCO offers penguin a carrot
News Stephen Shankland and Lisa M Bowman write for CNET News.com SCO claims it has won key Unix copyrights and is offering Linux users a deal that would allow them to pay licensing fees to avoid litigation for infringement of... [22 Jul 2003]
File-swapping firms to lobby Washington for legitimacy
News Lisa M Bowman writes for CNET News.com Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing companies are to band together and form an industry lobby group this summer in an attempt to fight back against entertainment industry efforts to... [08 Jul 2003]
