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Photos: Inside the Army's war games
Photo The MoD has turned to computer games to give army drivers sent to the Middle East some experience of the situations they might encounter in the field. Photo credit: Ministry of Defence (MoD) Photo credit: MoD [01 Sep 2008]
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. Team leader Julian Richardson, pictured here, cradles the RJ Mitchell Trophy... [21 Aug 2008]
Consolidated Departmental Resource Accounts 2003-04
White Paper The present Ministry of Defense (MoD), the Department, was formed by the amalgamation in 1964 of the Ministry of Defense, the Admiralty, the War Office and the Air Ministry, and the inclusion in 1971 of the Ministry of Aviation Supply. [03 Jul 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MessageLabs silicon.com took a trip to Bletchley Park to see the rebuilt Colossus machine used to break the German Enigma code during World War II. Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art... [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war
Photo Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD Holographic quantum technology and acoustic sniper sensors may sound like the stuff of science fiction films - but they are actually new defence technologies... [26 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]
Top 10 government IT stories of the year
News MoD arms itself with BlackBerrys ID Cards: The bidding war begins 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... [19 Dec 2007]
Photos: Soldiers test battle simulator tech
Photo The system uses lasers on both heavy armour and light infantry and the MoD claims it is the closest thing to real war. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has spent £250,000 on high-tech simulator equipment to provide more realistic training for... [22 Oct 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]
Preparing for war 2.0
News In its Defence Technology Strategy published this week, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) revealed its R&D priorities for the first time. With an annual spend of £2.6bn the MoD is one of the largest government investors in R&D. [18 Oct 2006]
Military to trial "enhanced" RFID tracking tags
News The MoD has introduced RFID tracking into its supply chain after being criticised by MPs on the Public Accounts Committee at the end of 2004 for failing to get the correct kit to soldiers during the invasion of Iraq, despite spending more than... [28 Feb 2006]
Battlefield network to give troops high-tech edge
News A new £180m battlefield communications network will "help clear the fog of war" and give British armed forces a major advantage over its opponents, according to the Ministry of Defence (MoD). BAE Systems' Insyte division has been named as preferred... [06 Jul 2005]
Leader: EDS back in spotlight with £4bn MoD deal
Leader All of which means, quite simply, that both EDS and the MoD cannot afford for anything to go wrong with the Defence Information Infrastructure project to create an integrated IT platform for the armed forces. [02 Mar 2005]
MoD awards £10m for better battle software
News The software is aimed at improving the coordination of army equipment, including jets and artillery forces on the battlefield - currently done manually - as the MoD moves to what it calls a "digitised battlespace". [29 Jul 2004]
Strangling the virus; the big number change, and big banker gains.
Comment The initiative came about as a response within the MoD to attacks from Melissa, the Love Bug and the Anna Kournikova viruses over the last year. This is a rather obvious but very important development in the war against unwanted viruses. [30 Apr 2001]
