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RSS mod the armyMoD IT - late and over budget
News The DII is aimed at improving communication and interoperability by providing a single information infrastructure serving the army, navy, airforce and central MoD command. A Ministry of Defence (MoD) programme to replace hundreds of IT systems with... [04 Jul 2008]
HMRC and MoD face action over data blunders
News The MoD's loss of 600,000 personnel and new recruit details was also heavily criticised in a report by Sir Edmund Burton, who blamed poor management by the Army Recruiting and Training Division and its contractor EDS. [25 Jun 2008]
MoD to save £35m with online travel service
News The service, which will support the travel needs of 300,000 Army, Royal Airforce, Royal Navy and MoD personnel, will use corporate travel services company Hogg Robinson Group to negotiate the best deals from the private sector travel industry. [19 Jun 2008]
MoD fights data losses with encryption
News Machines used by the army, navy and RAF will be given password-protected encryption using BeCrypt Disk Protect Baseline solution. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to protect 20,000 laptops using encryption software. [08 May 2008]
Backseat driver keeps armed forces in line
News The GreenRoad Safety Center will be installed in 200 vehicles belonging to the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force across the UK as part of a six-month trial to improve road safety. Ministry of Defence (MoD) road safety officer Major... [04 Apr 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo And sticking with the military theme, the Future Soldier event at London's National Army Museum showcased holographic quantum technology and acoustic sniper sensors. Photo credit: MoD Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art... [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war
Photo The Future Soldier event at London's National Army Museum blew open the UK's arsenal of the future. Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD Holographic quantum technology and acoustic sniper sensors... [26 Mar 2008]
Photos: MoD tracks with deadly accuracy
Photo A UK army soldier tests out the surveillance system and range finder (SSARF). Photo credit: MoD The MoD will take on 700 of the SSARF, which will be supplied to close combat forces for targeting and surveillance. [18 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]
Photos: Soldiers test battle simulator tech
Photo An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) is demonstrated here on an Army Landrover. The new simulation training equipment is part of the wide range of virtual training systems used by the Army's Land Warfare Centre (LWC)in Warminster. [22 Oct 2007]
Photos: MoD unveils £80m IT health programme
Photo Jonathan Cox, clinical policy officer for the Army Primary Healthcare Service, said searching for such patterns is not possible at the moment without having to ask every MoD medical centre to go through every record and collate that information. [02 Aug 2007]
Satellite to get the army talking
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is expected to spend around £3.6bn to use the satellite network over the next 13 years. The system is funded through a private finance initiative, with the satellite owned and operated by Paradigm Secure Communications... [12 Mar 2007]
Bomb Squad gets £65m robot fleet
News The army is spending £65m on a fleet of 80 bomb disposal robots. Under the contract the MoD will get 80 of the robots from Remotec UK, with a phased introduction into service beginning at the end of the decade. [29 Dec 2006]
Battlefield tech under UK and US spotlight
News The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the US Army are to work together on a $135.8m joint research programme to develop advanced secure wireless and sensor network technology, including RFID, to support soldiers in the battlefield in future... [21 Sep 2006]
Military unveils £200m next-generation comms network
News One of the networks which will eventually be replaced by Falcon is the army's Ptarmigan, a system which consists of trunk switches connected by satellite and multi-channel radio relay links that provides voice, data, telegraph and fax communications. [31 Mar 2006]
