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<strong>BAA</strong> invests £23m in cyber-terror defences

BAA invests £23m in cyber-terror defences

News British Airports Authority (BAA) is investing £23m in a top-secret programme to combat the threat of cyber-terrorism. BAA said it is more concerned about the threat of an electronic attack by terrorists than any other form of computer attack.

Tags: cyber-terror, baa

[10 Jun 2005]

CorasWorks Case Study: BAA Indianapolis LLC

whitepaper BAA Indianapolis LLC (BAAI) is a subsidiary of BAA plc, the private company which owns and operates seven airports in the United Kingdom including London's Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports. BAAI's Information Architect began to look for a...

Tags: sharepoint, united kingdom, airports, corasworks

[26 Jul 2005]

BAA calls on India for application management

News Airport group BAA, which owns seven UK airports including Heathrow, is outsourcing its software application management to India with LogicaCMG. The outsourcer will manage more than 400 applications, ranging from aircraft stand allocation and staff...

Tags: baa, india, logicacmg, deal

[12 Feb 2008]

<strong>BAA</strong> moves its procurement online

BAA moves its procurement online

News BAA, the world's largest airport operator with revenues of more than £2.2bn, is moving all of its suppliers to an online procurement system. All 1,500 suppliers have agreed to swap fax for browser in a move to drive down BAA supply chain costs from...

[15 Nov 2001]

BAA's RFID trial prepares for takeoff

News Airport operator BAA is preparing to kick off an RFID luggage-tracking trial at Heathrow. Back in the summer the track and trace pilot was slated for a September launch but although all the necessary equipment for the trial has been installed it...

Tags: rfid, wireless, baa, radio

[14 Nov 2007]

<strong>BAA</strong> spends £26m on browser-based IT

BAA spends £26m on browser-based IT

News Airport operator British Airports Authority (BAA) is to spend £26m on a server and web browser-based IT platform over the next three years in an effort to cut costs and improve flexibility. BAA's 9,000 airport workers and consultants will access...

[04 Feb 2004]

Airport Titan BAA Elevates Data-Center Efficiency

whitepaper Headquartered in London, England, BAA plc provides airport services at its seven U.K.airports - from car parking to ticketing. BAA avoided having to expand its current data center or build a new one by standardizing on HP ProLiant DL585 and DL385...

Tags: microsoft windows server, airport, databases, energy

[02 Mar 2006]

TUPE Helps BAA Retain Critical IT Skills

whitepaper As part of BAA's 'Smart Sourcing' strategy, Computacenter is responsible for delivering a range of IT services across the company's UK estate of 10,500-plus desktops and laptops. BAA was keen not only to retain the skills of the staff involved in...

Tags: it hr - staffing - training, employment, computacenter, baa

[10 Aug 2006]

BT clinches £50m <strong>BAA</strong> deal

BT clinches £50m BAA deal

News BAA has signed a £50m deal with BT for voice, data and paging services. The five-year deal will see the consulting arm of BT's business telecoms unit, BT Ignite Solutions, building communications services for Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports...

[20 May 2002]

BT flying high with £46.6m <strong>BAA</strong> deal

BT flying high with £46.6m BAA deal

News BT announced on Thursday that it has signed a £46.6m deal with airport operator BAA to supply it with managed voice and data at its Stansted, Heathrow and Gatwick sites, as well as promoting BAA's flexible working strategy.

[07 May 2004]

Richard Rundle

CIO Profile BAA was bought by Spanish construction business Ferrovial for £10.3bn last year and IT director Richard Rundle's challenges under the new owners are to help simplify the business, deliver higher levels of service and security to passengers...

[06 Jun 2007]

Airport operator tests RFID for mystery application

Airport operator tests RFID for mystery application

News Airport operator BAA is experimenting with RFID, a technology which it says could create a "step-change" in the way it does business. BAA clearly has big hopes for the smart chip technology, as its group IT director Richard Rundle told silicon.com...

Tags: baa airport rfid

[29 Apr 2005]

Airports unite to offer the world on a website

Airports unite to offer the world on a website

News Called World Airports, BAA said it was holding discussions with Charles de Gaulle, Copenhagen, Dallas Fort Worth, Houston, Indianapolis International, Melbourne and Orly. All British airports under BAA jurisdiction, including Heathrow and Gatwick...

[26 Sep 2000]

BT touts Wi-Fi over 3G

BT touts Wi-Fi over 3G

News BT announced on Wednesday it has struck deals with BAA, Hilton and Welcome Break that should help it reach its target of 400 Wi-Fi hot spots by this summer, and 4,000 by June 2005, as it aims to dominate the UK's commercial Wi-Fi market.

[30 Jan 2003]

Photos of the month - July 2007

Photo Jointly developed by the BAA and British Airways (BA), T5 is due to open on 27 March 2008.silicon.com got a behind-the-scenes look at this five-year project. We also saw how exactly BAA and BA will implement all the technology in T5.

Tags: green it, data centres, mash-ups, second life

[27 Jul 2007]

Photos: Inside Heathrow's Terminal 5

Photos: Inside Heathrow's Terminal 5

Photo Photo: BAA Photo: BAA Photo: BAA BAA had to deploy an environmental relocation team to divert two rivers before building work could begin. Photo: BAA According to BAA, an automatic baggage handling system will track suitcases whizzing around at 10m...

Tags: heathrow

[20 Feb 2006]

Heathrow's high-tech Terminal 5 prepares for take off

News Nick Gains, head of systems for BAA, says: "Information flow is critical to passenger flow in an airport. T5 for BAA is a very big project - it's the gateway to London. Tony Douglas, MD of BAA T5, says: "It was the original brown-field site.

Tags: heathrow express, heathrow

[20 Feb 2006]

How did the Heathrow T5 launch go so wrong?

Comment British Airways (BA) and BAA spent five years and £4.3bn on the huge project using the opportunity building a brand new terminal in order to change the way things were done at Heathrow for the better.

Tags: airport, testing, baa, ba

[28 Mar 2008]

IT fault at Gatwick brings airport to halt

News A spokesman for BAA, which owns Gatwick Airport, said the failure brought down every system except those of British Airways: "As soon as it went down we implemented a manual system. BAA has yet to disclose exactly what the systems failure was.

Tags: baa airport rfid, airport

[14 Nov 2005]

Wi-Fi in departures, Wi-Fi in the sky - an industry embraces wireless

News BAA, one of the world's largest owners of airports around the world, has now announced a Wi-Fi hotspot at Heathrow Terminal 1 in London, an offering put together with the help of BT Openzone and Intel, which is currently pushing its Centrino...

Tags: airports, baa, in-flight, wi-fi

[11 Apr 2003]

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