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News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is considering a telepresence pilot, as part of its plans to tackle its travel budget.silicon.com Public Sector Currently, the department spends around £300m per year transporting civil servants and military personnel... [03 Jul 2008]
Photos: Robot warriors engage in battle
Photo The Grand Challenge is a science and technology competition set up by the Ministry of Defence to address military challenges faced by the UK armed forces. The challenge is to create a system with a high degree of autonomy that can detect, identify... [06 May 2008]
Backseat driver keeps armed forces in line
News Ministry of Defence (MoD) road safety officer Major Shepherd said: "As part of our commitment to duty of care, we have an obligation for the safety of all MoD personnel - whether they are drivers or passengers. [04 Apr 2008]
Data breaches: Don't blame 'stupid' employees
News Ashenden's speech made reference to several recent high-profile security breaches, including the exposure of 25 million individual's records by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in November last year, and the loss of an MoD laptop containing the records... [03 Apr 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo Photo credit: MoD The US military has given the University of Michigan's College of Engineering $10m to build a six-inch spy plane to gather sights, sounds and smells in urban combat zones. And sticking with the military theme, the Future Soldier... [27 Mar 2008]
MoD admits to losing 11,000 ID cards
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has admitted that more than 11,000 military ID cards have been lost or stolen in the past two years. In a statement, the MoD said: "We take the loss of military ID cards very seriously and we are taking steps to... [13 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.01.08
Round-Up Glad you asked - the MoD has announced it has lost a laptop containing the personal information of about 600,000 people who have joined or expressed an interest in joining the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and Royal Marines. [25 Jan 2008]
Stolen MoD laptop contains 600,000 records
News A Ministry of Defence (MoD) laptop containing personal data about 600,000 people has been stolen in the latest security breach to hit the government.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the government... [21 Jan 2008]
Steria runs off with £17m MoD contract
News It requires Steria to oversee the activities of a number of specialist subcontractors which supply the MOD with systems designed to support specific military functions, such as battlefield management, facilities management and logistics.silicon... [01 Nov 2007]
MoD deploys more PCs for military ops
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is deploying 3,300 computer terminals to help command military operations. 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... [10 Oct 2007]
Photos of the month - August 2007
Photo The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has unveiled an £80m electronic military medical records system which allows the health records of military personnel to be transferred between practices electronically, instead of using the traditional paper-based... [31 Aug 2007]
Photos: MoD unveils £80m IT health programme
Photo The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has unveiled an £80m electronic military medical records system. By 2010, these electronic records will be accessible in any of the 299 medical and 181 dental Defence Medical Services (DMS) centres which the MoD runs... [02 Aug 2007]
Photos of the month - June 2007
Photo Photo credit: MoD This month silicon.com visited an annual field trial running military scenarios and testing tech such as the Skynet 5 satellite-based comms and VoIP phones as part of the military's Falcon project. [27 Jun 2007]
Photos: Virtual war tests new technology
Photo Stephen Borthwick, an RAF wing commander, said the industry involvement is key because the Ministry of Defence (MoD) "does not have all the bright ideas". This isn't the first time the US and UK have joined forces to improve battlefield tech - the... [14 Jun 2007]
Photos: Top Gun goes virtual
Photo Neville Salkeld, MD of QinetiQ's MoD support business said the facility at Waddington demonstrates how mature technology can be used to improve military effectiveness. Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD [08 Jun 2007]
