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RSS rafElite Reporting and Analytics Foundation: Proven Data Integrity for Fast and Accurate Reporting and Analysis
White Paper The immediate advantage of implementing Elite Reporting and Analytics Foundation (RAF) was the seamless integration with Elite Enterprise, which delivered timely, accurate and balanced financial data directly into the... [01 Sep 2009]
BT lands £99m comms deal with Ministry of Defence
News The deal broadens the Defence Fixed Telecommunications Service (DFTS) agreement, under which BT is building and managing a co-ordinated communicated infrastructure for the Army, Royal Navy and RAF. BT on Thursday... [17 Jul 2009]
Human robots, Android Magic and classic radar tech
Photo For 25 years the British-designed Iris investigative radar recording system operated behind closed doors at the former RAF West Drayton base outside London, handling millions of aircraft movements without a single failing. [02 Mar 2009]
Photos: Classic Iris radar gets vision back
Photo For 25 years the British-designed Iris investigative radar recording system operated behind closed doors at the former RAF West Drayton base outside London, handling millions of aircraft movements without a single... [16 Feb 2009]
Lost data total nears 30 million records
News September 2008: Three hard drives are stolen from a secure RAF facility in Gloucestershire. In the last 12 months a series of data security lapses have seen personal data on as many as 29 million people lost by a variety... [30 Sep 2008]
Photos: Missile detecting DEC computer
Photo Murrell said: "The RAF lost a Jaguar aeroplane that crash landed in the Highlands and it couldn't be found quickly. This is a DEC seismometer array station processor, used to detect earthquakes, on display at the... [16 Sep 2008]
Stolen ePassports 'worth £20m' on black market
News A van carrying about 3,000 blank ePassports and visas was hijacked on route to RAF Northolt, near London. The thousands of UK ePassports stolen on Monday are likely to sell for up to £20m on the black market, say privacy... [29 Jul 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]
HMRC data blunder to sink ID cards?
News Another reader, ex-RAF cryptographer Paul Howard, said the government's delay in making the data loss public underlines the need for the UK to adopt Californian-style data breach legislation "to ensure the loss of... [22 Nov 2007]
MoD boosts battlefield comms
News Falcon is a telecommunications system used by the Armed Forces to transmit voice and data traffic on the battlefield, and BAE Systems Insyte will provide the equipment and initial support for an extension of Falcon to the... [28 Sep 2007]
Photos: MoD unveils £80m IT health programme
Photo The system will then be implemented in the Defence Dental Services, Royal Air Force (RAF), Royal Navy and permanent overseas bases by August 2008. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has unveiled an £80m electronic military... [02 Aug 2007]
Photos of the month - July 2007
Photo Managed services provider Centrinet has launched what it claims is the UK's first zero carbon emission data centre, housed in a former RAF radar station. A British Airways 747 taxis past Heathrow Airport's new Terminal... [27 Jul 2007]
Photos: Five unusual data centres
Photo The data centre was built 100 metres underground in a former RAF radar station in the Lincolnshire countryside. Data centres are big business, and as well as the usual anonymous buildings on the edge of town silicon.com... [25 Jul 2007]
Photos: Unearthing the zero-carbon data centre
Photo The data centre has been built 100 metres underground in a former-RAF radar station. The Smartbunker is getting a facelift from its post-RAF radar station days. The Smartbunker is housed inside an old... [03 Jul 2007]
Photos of the month - June 2007
Photo The simulators are housed at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire and include four Tornado GR4 and four Typhoon cockpits. The RAF is testing a simulator which will allow RAF and US Air Force... [27 Jun 2007]
