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Photos: Military robot wars
Photo The MoD has announced the winner of its Grand Challenge competition to produce a vehicle capable of identifying threats encountered by UK troops on current operations. A secondary goal of the Grand Challenge competition was to encourage deeper... [21 Aug 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 installing 62,800 computer terminals at... [04 Jul 2008]
MoD plans telepresence trial
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 Get the latest public sector news straight to your inbox. Sign up for the PS newsletter today! [03 Jul 2008]
Need for "radical change" in gov't data handling
News The justice minister's comments were made in light of a number of reports on government data losses published on Wednesday, including a review of the HMRC loss of 25 million child-benefit claimant details by PricewaterhouseCoopers chair Kieran... [26 Jun 2008]
Taxpayer "lost" £90m on QinetiQ sell-off
News The sell-off of the former Ministry of Defence (MoD) tech research firm, QinetiQ, saw the taxpayer missing out on almost £100m, a public spending watchdog has found. The taxpayer should have received another £90m following the deal, according to... [10 Jun 2008]
Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 gets cautious welcome
News Photos: MoD tracks with deadly accuracy If you are a CIO, CTO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and you want to be part of silicon.com's CIO Jury pool, or you know an IT chief who should be, then... [28 Feb 2008]
Government admits to 200 more laptop thefts
News The MoD said it could not supply figures for the total number of laptops until a review into losses by the MoD is carried out. Previous figures have shown the MoD has lost 347 laptops since 2004 and Defence Secretary Des Browne admitted that three... [19 Feb 2008]
Army targets enemy with high-tech laser guidance
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed a £30m contract with Thales UK to take charge of 700 handheld or tripod-mounted systems for close combat forces from 2009. A spokeswoman for the MoD said: "British troops welcome the new system, as it will... [15 Feb 2008]
Top 10 government IT stories of the year
News MoD arms itself with BlackBerrys Undoubtedly, the fall-out from HM Revenue & Customs' loss of two discs containing 25 million child benefit records has reverberated throughout the public sector with seismic proportions. [19 Dec 2007]
MoD to advance its tech plans
News The MoD claims the DTP will allow industry and academia to better direct investment in defence science and technology, and will set out a research programme by presenting technological roadmaps of R&D objectives.silicon.com Public Sector [15 Nov 2007]
MoD shells out on data transfer tech
News The MoD will use Infonic's Geo-Replication software, which improves the efficiency of the Microsoft SharePoint server technology, and also receive tech support for the next seven years.silicon.com Public Sector [05 Nov 2007]
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 Bob Quick, DII integrated project team leader at the MoD's Defence Equipment and Support unit, said the DII(F) will provide a computing infrastructure and services that will enable sharing of information and collaborative working to a variety of... [10 Oct 2007]
MoD boosts battlefield comms
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed a £45m contract extension with BAE Systems Insyte to extend the supply of the Falcon communications system. Falcon works with other MoD comms systems such as Skynet 5 and is compatible with Nato systems. [28 Sep 2007]
MoD arms itself with BlackBerrys
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is giving BlackBerrys to its staff to encourage flexible and more productive working. The MoD is using a BlackBerry Enterprise Server to give staff access to email on the move and also give IT workers the ability to... [12 Sep 2007]
