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Is short-termism holding back public sector outsourcing?
Comment Tough bargaining forces outsourcing price cuts Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys India losing status as offshore king? Or is it that government outsourcing is done essentially to protect itself against failure... [20 Aug 2008]
Photos: Unmanned 'spy in the sky' takes off
Photo The UK Ministry of Defence's Watchkeeper programme is aiming to develop an unmanned 'spy in the sky' plane that will provide the armed forces with vital intelligence and surveillance capability by 2010. [15 Aug 2008]
Police to get thousands more mobiles
News Back in May, policing minister Tony McNulty announced £50m to furnish 27 police forces with 10,000 mobile computers. Ian Readhead, deputy chief constable of Hampshire and the Association of Chief Police Officers lead for the mobile information... [22 Jul 2008]
MoD IT - late and over budget
News The MoD says the range of improvements delivered by the DII include enhancement of existing MoD systems, delivery of two systems to forces in Afghanistan at short notice, a "single point of contact" help desk and enabling benefits totalling £972m... [04 Jul 2008]
Fingerprints analysed on the beat
News New forces coming on to the programme are Avon and Somerset Police, City of London Police, Derbyshire Constabulary, Durham Constabulary, Greater Manchester Police, Kent Police, Leicester Constabulary, Merseyside Police, Surrey Police and Thames... [11 Jun 2008]
Lloyds TSB offshores 450 tech jobs to India
News Tough bargaining forces outsourcing price cuts Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys India losing status as offshore king? The bank is considering outsourcing further jobs in the programme management office... [19 May 2008]
Revealed: Cyber crimefighting successes
News The unit would provide leadership and expertise to co-ordinate investigations nationwide and collate reports from police forces across the country, as well as offering a central point of contact for reporting e-crime. [15 May 2008]
Photos: Eye in the sky to spot 'friendly fire'
Photo From 2012 the Land Environment Air Picture Provision programme (Leapp) will pull together information from a range of land- and sea-based sensors to paint an up-to-the-minute picture of local aircraft, missile and even artillery movements, as seen... [03 Apr 2008]
Army fires up wi-fi for troops
News Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in a statement: "In recognition for the work of all our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan - and to help our troops stay in touch with home - we will provide additional funding from the reserve to double the number of... [09 Oct 2007]
Counterterrorism gets $200m tech backing from EU
News Funding will also be allocated for the development of a European ballistic database, which will analyse and store firearms information and allow sharing of information among European police forces, the Commission said in a statement. [13 Sep 2007]
Photos: MoD unveils £80m IT health programme
Photo The Defence Medical Information Capability Programme (DMICP) system will hold the records of 200,000 military personnel, along with 50,000 civilian medical records. The Defence Medical Information Capability Programme (DMICP) system is being rolled... [02 Aug 2007]
Photos: Virtual war tests new technology
Photo This isn't the first time the US and UK have joined forces to improve battlefield tech - the MoD and US Army signed up to a $136m joint research programme to develop advanced wireless and sensor network technology last year. [14 Jun 2007]
£2.4bn battlefield radios slammed by MPs
News The whole programme involves replacing the ageing analogue Clansman radios, used by the armed forces since the 1970s, with a secure digital communications system linked with the CIP computer-based battlefield management system across 15,700 land... [07 Mar 2007]
£390m ambulance radio upgrade rollout begins
News Police forces have been using Tetra radios since 2005 and earlier this year the Fire service signed a £350m deal to roll it out. Work on the overall programme is "already well underway" with the rollout of the radio system to all NHS Ambulance... [27 Dec 2006]
Robot stealth jet gets £124m boost
News Defence minister Lord Drayson said the project will test cutting-edge technology for a new generation of equipment for front line forces. The programme will explore how cutting-edge technology can be used to deliver a new front-line UAV capability. [12 Dec 2006]
