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Tony Mather
CIO Profile A key current priority is the FCO's Future Firecrest project which is aiming to enable more modern and mobile ways of working by upgrading the department's global IT infrastructure. Tony Mather is CIO of the Foreign and... [03 Jun 2009]
How tech is making FCO 'more foreign, less office'
Comment The project that will ultimately enable new ways of working for the FCO's 16,000 staff is called Future Firecrest, which entails replacing all desktop and back-end tech in the department's many offices around the world -... [04 Feb 2009]
Future Firecrest tops Foreign Office £686m IT spend
News The most costly is Future Firecrest, the FCO's next generation desktop system and support services, due for completion by February 2012. Both the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Ministry of Justice have revealed... [25 Nov 2008]
Foreign Office tech overspend leads to project trimming
News The cost of implementing the revamped FCO 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 more than... [07 Jul 2008]
Tony Mather
CIO Profile In addition to managing a tech budget in excess of £100m per year and major IT-related programmes such as biometric visas, shared services and the Firecrest project to upgrade the FCO's entire IT infrastructure, Mather... [11 Jun 2008]
IT hiccups hamper passport issuing at embassies
News The NAO said the Foreign Office has signed a £230m deal to improve its IT infrastructure, in a project called 'Future Firecrest'. Embassies and consulates are struggling to issue passports because of weaknesses in their... [24 Nov 2005]
Foreign Office signs £6m Microsoft deal
News Its desktop system, known as Firecrest, is based on Microsoft software. The Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) has signed a three-year, £6m deal with Microsoft for IT support and new software applications licences. [30 Jun 2005]
HP and Foreign Office in £320m PPP IT deal
News The new deal is for 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 beat off competition from a SAIC-led... [17 Feb 2005]
Racal picks up UK Foreign Office messaging deal
News The FCO is working on its own automation service - dubbed Firecrest, and based on Compaq hardware and software from Microsoft - and is also handling its own security needs. The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)... [26 Jan 1999]
