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Labyrinthine IT systems lose MoD almost £300m
News Failings in computer systems used by the Ministry of Defence led to the loss of almost £300m in payments and equipment, the National Audit Office (NAO) has found. According to an NAO report into the MoD's 2008-09... [21 Jul 2009]
iPhone 3.0, holograms and the shed birthplace of Silicon Valley
Photo Photo credit: Ministry of Defence Pictured here is cabinet newbie defence secretary Bob Ainsworth - the man who, among other tasks, will take over responsibility for managing the £7.1bn... [03 Jul 2009]
Military intelligence to get £190m link up
News The £191m stage of the £7.1bn Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) programme, will build and link networks capable of handling material classified as "Above Secret". The DII implementation is part of... [11 Feb 2009]
£7bn MoD IT project: Late, overbudget, unloved
News The £7.1bn Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) programme was intended to provide a single information infrastructure serving the army, navy, airforce and central MoD command but the project is now... [15 Jan 2009]
HP-EDS job cuts: "It's business as normal"
News According to the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), which represents more than 2,000 EDS staff in the UK, the services provider has contracts with the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the Department for Work and... [09 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. Defence Information Infrastructure... [04 Jul 2008]
IT tops R&D spend
News In the UK, the sectors spending most on R&D are pharmaceuticals/biotechnology (39 per cent) and aerospace/defence (12 per cent). The IT hardware, software and telecoms sectors spent a total of $102bn on R&D... [25 Oct 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: ASP action; B2B ecommerce hubs; and Cisco: worth more than Microsoft
Comment The second announcement was the formation of a new ecommerce trading exchange for the aerospace and defence industry, which brings together many of the biggest names in the industry: Boeing, BEA Systems, Lockheed Martin... [02 Apr 2000]
