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HM Treasury strikes five-year IT services deal
News Under the deal Fujitsu will deliver shared services as part of the Cabinet Office's Flex framework. The Treasury is the latest government organisation to access the Flex shared services and joins The... [25 Sep 2009]
More of a whimper than a bang: Whitehall's green tech drive
News The Cabinet Office said these figures only represent a snapshot and not the full extent of the savings derived from greening its IT but could not provide details of any further savings. According to an announcement by... [16 Sep 2009]
Offshoring: Is resistance weakening at Whitehall?
News Recently, senior civil servants in the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Justice both told silicon.com that they are open to offshoring work such as software development. While offshoring is commonplace in the private... [03 Aug 2009]
IT security training now the 'substantial' task of GCHQ
News In the past, all government IT security training has been the charge of the Cabinet Office, through the office of the Central Sponsor for Information Assurance (CSIA). However, the Cabinet Office will... [01 Jul 2009]
Parliamentary tech boss backs call for £1bn IT fund
News The need to cut IT costs is already high on the government's agenda following the recent Operational Efficiency Programme report which heralded a drive for £7.2bn-per-year savings through greater use of shared services and outsourcing,... [29 Jun 2009]
SMEs on target list for UK cyber attack group
News The government has not finalised training budgets, a Cabinet Office spokesperson said. We'll have a formal role in introducing [the strategy], working closely with the Cabinet Office," said Dyhouse. The... [29 Jun 2009]
Whitehall IT to pack its bags for pastures new?
News According to Alexis Cleveland, director of transformational government for the Cabinet Office, sending some areas of tech work abroad could result in cheaper and better-quality IT services. The comments come ahead of a... [24 Jun 2009]
Whitehall: DIY tech to protect against public service knife
News Public service spending will need to fall by £50bn by 2020 according to Alexis Cleveland, director general for transformational government at the Cabinet Office. She added that sites such as the MP... [11 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo Following a week of political turmoil culminating in a cabinet reshuffle, silicon.com takes a look at the changes wrought in the top tiers of government and how they might impact on the technology industry. [10 Jun 2009]
Indian tech giants to transform UK government?
News The group - whose members already include former cabinet ministers Patricia Hewitt and Charles Clarke - will introduce executives from outsourcing powerhouses such as HCL, Infosys and TCS to MPs and civil servants, as... [16 Feb 2009]
Two-thirds of UK's top IT security jobs unfilled
News Sharon Wiltshire is chairman of the Infosec Training Paths & Competencies (ITPC) scheme at the Central Sponsor for Information Assurance, a unit within the Cabinet Office. Dorey said the difficulty in filling the 14... [03 Feb 2009]
How IT is helping the NHS save the planet
News Ferrar's team has been working with the Cabinet Office green delivery unit for 18 months focusing on initiatives such as how best to manage datacentres, implement wireless networks and recycle hardware. [29 Jan 2009]
Images: Putting next-gen Broadband Britain on the map
Photo Part of BT's £1.5bn planned investment in fibre will see the creation of a fibre to the cabinet deployment in London's Muswell Hill where customers will be able to get speeds of up to 40Mbps. Meanwhile a three-year... [27 Jan 2009]
PM's 100,000 job plan to mean broadband spending spree?
News Any government fibre plans are likely to focus on fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) rather than fibre-to-the-home (FTTH), due to the costs involved: a recent report by the Broadband Stakeholder Group priced FTTC at £5.1bn,... [05 Jan 2009]
Disaster fighters link up with £2m tool
News The Cabinet Office Civil Contingencies Secretariat and the Department of Communities and Local Government have commissioned BT and Ultra Electronics Datel to develop the NRE. A Cabinet Office spokeswoman... [10 Dec 2008]
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