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RSS MoDMoD to advance its tech plans
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has unveiled its Defence Technology Plan (DTP) aimed at providing a clear direction to the R&D community. The DTP will take the MoD's current Defence Technology Strategy... [15 Nov 2007]
MoD to save £35m with online travel service
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) expects to save £35m per year through an online travel service set up and managed by Capgemini. The service, which will support the travel needs of 300,000 Army, Royal Airforce, Royal Navy... [19 Jun 2008]
MoD targets £174m savings from £4bn IT deal
News The Ministry of Defence's (MoD) is targeting cost savings of £174m over the first three years of its £4bn IT outsourcing deal, which is due to be awarded early next year. The MoD has previously refused... [01 Nov 2004]
MoD parades £1.5bn networking deal
News Extending the contract will see improvements in technology involving the introduction of a new digital core network, the MoD said. It will also provide stable wide area network services which the MoD... [01 Apr 2005]
MoD chooses BT to help test SKYNET
News The telco has won a deal to create and run an extension to the Land Systems Reference Centre (LSRC), which the MoD will use to test its IT systems in simulated battlefield conditions. The extension is necessary,... [11 Mar 2005]
MoD admits to more laptop thefts
News Browne said Sir Edmund Burton, Information Advisory Council chairman, would investigate weaknesses in MoD security procedure and warned if these losses had breached the law the individuals would "have to live with the... [22 Jan 2008]
Photos: MoD unveils £80m IT health programme
Photo The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has unveiled an £80m electronic military medical records system. By 2010, these electronic records will be accessible in any of the 299 medical and 181 dental Defence Medical Services (DMS)... [02 Aug 2007]
MoD arms itself with BlackBerrys
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is giving BlackBerrys to its staff to encourage flexible and more productive working. The MoD is using a BlackBerry Enterprise Server to give staff access to email on the... [12 Sep 2007]
MoD trailblazes travel-booking service
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed up Capgemini to deliver an electronic travel-booking service. The department has already achieved 10 per cent yearly savings on travel spend from using the service and is on track... [07 Aug 2007]
MoD shells out on data transfer tech
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) tech supplier the ATLAS Consortium has awarded software company Infonic an £8.3m contract to provide the MoD with data transfer technology and support. The... [05 Nov 2007]
MoD's 'screw it up and you suffer' approach is the way to go
Comment The IT modernisation project, codenamed Defence Information Infrastructure (DII), will create a single standard platform for the MoD, which serves 157,000 desktop users around the world. The MoD has... [27 Jun 2003]
MoD fights data losses with encryption
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to protect 20,000 laptops using encryption software. A spokesman for the MoD said: "There was a feeling there was a need for stringent security standards and the reason... [08 May 2008]
MoD deploys more PCs for military ops
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is deploying 3,300 computer terminals to help command military operations. The hardware rollout will cost an extra £270m on top of the original £2.3bn contract with the Atlas consortium for... [10 Oct 2007]
MoD admits to losing 11,000 ID cards
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has admitted that more than 11,000 military ID cards have been lost or stolen in the past two years. In a statement, the MoD said: "We take the loss of military ID cards... [13 Mar 2008]
MoD boosts battlefield comms
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed a £45m contract extension with BAE Systems Insyte to extend the supply of the Falcon communications system. Falcon works with other MoD comms systems such as... [28 Sep 2007]
