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MoD breach: Data goes missing from "secure location"
News On Wednesday 8 October we were informed by our contractor EDS that they were unable to account for a portable hard drive used in connection with the administration of armed-forces personnel data," the MoD said in a... [10 Oct 2008]
MoD IT - late and over budget
News A Ministry of Defence (MoD) programme to replace hundreds of IT systems with a single infrastructure is running more than a year late and is £182m over budget. The MoD is on course to miss its target of... [04 Jul 2008]
Reports in full: HMRC and MoD data breaches
News Chairman of the Information Assurance Advisory Council Sir Edmund Burton looked into the theft on 9 January 2008 of a Ministry of Defence (MoD) laptop containing the personal details of 600,000 armed forces recruits and... [26 Jun 2008]
HMRC and MoD face action over data blunders
News The report said laptops had been used in breach of MoD encryption policy and pointed out ongoing data protection breaches within the MoD. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is taking enforcement... [25 Jun 2008]
MoD to save £35m with online travel service
News According to group captain Andy Towler, who headed up the MoD group charged with designing the service, it will also consolidate services' travel procurement processes and provide a transparent audit... [19 Jun 2008]
Taxpayer "lost" £90m on QinetiQ sell-off
News The taxpayer should have received another £90m following the deal, according to the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which backed the findings of a National Audit Office report criticising the way the... [10 Jun 2008]
QinetiQ sale investigated by watchdog
News A government watchdog is to investigate the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) partial sale of defence technology company QinetiQ. Five years ago, the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (Dera) was split into two... [27 Jan 2006]
5 years ago... MoD accused of wasting £34m on high-tech white elephant
News 26.11.98 The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) poured £34.6m into an IT system which was never used, according to a report from the National Audit Office (NAO), the organisation which monitors central... [26 Nov 2003]
MoD writes off £118m on ditched IT system
News At the time, the MoD said the project's future was in the balance, but the National Audit Office's review of the department's resource accounts reveals that the project has been officially canned and... [03 Nov 2003]
E-kidneys and Ann Widdecombe
Comment We tried to find out from the MoD where all that money had gone. If only other army types had the same attitude: the National Audit Office released a report late last week which revealed that the... [30 Nov 2001]
The MoD and the 'missing' £33m...
News The report states: "The Department [the MoD] is faced with £33 million of obsolescence costs resulting from rapid changes in computer hardware technology. The MoD could provide no spokesperson to explain... [22 Nov 2001]
NAO reveals more MoD IT bungles
News In 1989 the Ministry of Defence (MoD) chose GEC-Plessey to provide messaging technology to link 500 terminals at 13 sites in the UK at a cost of £21m. Furthermore, a project to upgrade the MoD's pension... [19 Jan 2000]
MoD fails to make ends meet
News The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is set to go £2.8bn over budget on its top 25 procurement projects - pushing total costs up to £38bn, according to a report by the National Audit Office (NAO). An... [01 Jul 1999]
MoD accused of wasting £34m on high-tech white elephant
News The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) poured £34.6m into an IT system which was never used, according to a report from the National Audit Office (NAO) - the organisation which monitors central government... [26 Nov 1998]
Why Tony Blair must catch the bug
Comment Taskforce 2000 highlights the MoD's Y2K programme as one of the most threatened: "The programme has now been pared to a mere 6,000 critical IT systems and a June audit by Logica reportedly listed 35... [12 Nov 1998]
