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MoD deploys more PCs for military ops

News The hardware rollout will cost an extra £270m on top of the original £2.3bn contract with the Atlas consortium for the provision of the Defence Information Infrastructure (Future) (DII(F)) programme to provide around 150,000 computer terminals...

Tags: military, atlas, mod

[10 Oct 2007]

Ministry of Defence gives 150 apps their marching orders

News The MoD application rationalisation project is part of the Defence Information Exploitation programme which runs alongside the Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) programme, which aims to deliver a consolidated IT infrastructure across the...

Tags: mod

[08 Feb 2006]

Re:Viewing 2005: The year in outsourcing

News Elsewhere the trend towards numerous, smaller outsourcing contracts meant a continued decline in the so-called 'megadeal' but other notable contract wins in the UK included the EDS-led Atlas consortium beating stiff competition for the £4bn...

Tags: outsourcing, offshore outsourcing

[20 Dec 2005]

Re:Viewing 2005: The year in public sector IT

News And just a month later one of the biggest outsourcing deals in government got signed off, with EDS and friends winning the 10-year £4bn Ministry of Defence (MoD) Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) contract.

Tags: id cards on trial, public sector it, e-government, open source

[19 Dec 2005]

Modernized Integrated Data Base: Migration to a Three-Tier Software Architecture for DII COE

whitepaper Department of Defense has adopted the Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment (DII COE) architecture to expedite communication between services and programs. New development programs and legacy systems already fielded must...

Tags: database management, legacy, programs, defense

[01 Sep 2005]

C4I Tactical Applications Utilizing Embedded Simulations

whitepaper This paper reports progress on the Navy's Embedded Simulation Infrastructure (ESI) Program implementation and management of embedded models and simulations for C4I systems that are compliant with the Defense Information Infrastructure Common...

Tags: simulation, models, embedded, simulations

[01 Sep 2005]

ID Cards on Trial: EDS wants in on project

ID Cards on Trial: EDS wants in on project

News But he said that if EDS was to become involved in bidding for the project, it would be likely to do it in a consortium, the way has approached other big projects such as the £4bn Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) outsourcing deal it won...

Tags: identity cards, eds, id cards

[16 Jun 2005]

MoD parades £1.5bn networking deal

MoD parades £1.5bn networking deal

News It will also provide stable wide area network services which the MoD said will be critical to the successful deployment of the Defence Information Infrastructure Future (DII(F)) project. Neil Rogers, president of BT global solutions told silicon...

Tags: network, bt, mod, dii

[01 Apr 2005]

Update: EDS scoops £4bn MoD outsourcing contract

Update: EDS scoops £4bn MoD outsourcing contract

News The EDS-led Atlas consortium has won the £4bn Ministry of Defence (MoD) Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) outsourcing contract, one of the biggest outsourcing deals ever. Well-documented failings by EDS at the Inland Revenue and Department...

[02 Mar 2005]

EDS set to land £4bn deal to run UK defence IT?

EDS set to land £4bn deal to run UK defence IT?

News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has targeted £174m in efficiency savings through the Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) contract, which will overhaul the UK's defence IT infrastructure. DII will replace 300 diverse information systems across 2...

[28 Feb 2005]

D-day looms for £4bn defence IT contract

D-day looms for £4bn defence IT contract

News The lengthy procurement process for the armed forces' Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) project now goes down to the final assessment before the MoD chooses its preferred bidder next February. DII] will enable faster passage of information...

[25 Nov 2004]

MoD targets £174m savings from £4bn IT deal

MoD targets £174m savings from £4bn IT deal

News The 10-year Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) project is being contested by two consortiums - the EDS-led Atlas group with Fujitsu, Cogent, General Dynamics and LogicaCMG against the CSC-led RaDii consortium with BT, CGEY and Thales.

[01 Nov 2004]

EDS pledges £600m savings in MoD personnel deal

News EDS has extended a personnel deal it has with the armed forces in the UK, an announcement that may bode well for the upcoming Ministry of Defence £4bn Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) contract.

Tags: eds, mod

[28 Oct 2004]

£4bn MoD deal down to two bidders

£4bn MoD deal down to two bidders

News Two consortia have made today's deadline for bids for the tough 10-year, £4bn MoD DII (Defence Information Infrastructure) contract. The winner will face the challenge of connecting around 300,000 users and 100 or so computer systems, managing the...

[05 Apr 2004]

Programming Asynchronous Method Invocations with CORBA Messaging

whitepaper It also outlined how the Messaging specification alleviates the tedium of programming with deferred synchronous operations via the Dynamic Invocation Interface (DII) and avoids the weak reliability semantics of one-way operations.

Tags: object-oriented, programming, interface, messaging

[24 Feb 2004]

Migrating from OrbixWeb to VisiBroker for Java

whitepaper We will briefly discuss how to migrate applications that use the Interface Repository (IR), the Dynamic Invocation Interface (DII) and the Dynamic Skeleton Interface (DSI) from OrbixWeb to Visibroker for Java.

Tags: systems integration, java, interface, migrate

[24 Feb 2004]

IBM out of £4bn MoD contract race

IBM out of £4bn MoD contract race

News The IBM-led consortium of BAE Systems, Computacenter, Steria, NTL and Echelon was one of four bids for the lucrative Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) deal. IBM has been dropped by the Ministry of Defence in the bidding for its £4bn 10-year...

[17 Dec 2003]

MoD's 'screw it up and you suffer' approach is the way to go

Comment The IT modernisation project, codenamed Defence Information Infrastructure (DII), will create a single standard platform for the MoD, which serves 157,000 desktop users around the world. Captain Steve Brunton, assistant director of DII, said: "The...

[27 Jun 2003]

MoD unveils £4bn outsourcing shortlist

MoD unveils £4bn outsourcing shortlist

News The shortlist for the Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) contract was officially unveiled today and features four consortiums, each led by a major name in IT services industry. Chris Church, assistant director of commercial management for the...

[26 Jun 2003]

MoD's <strong>DII</strong> - another day in outsourcing for CSC, BT and co

MoD's DII - another day in outsourcing for CSC, BT and co

News The Radii Consortium, which also includes BT, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young and Thales, is the first bidder to be revealed for the MoD’s Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) project. The purpose of DII is the modernisation of the armed force’s IT...

Tags: radii, dii, defence, mod

[20 May 2003]

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