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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 move and also give IT workers the ability to...
[12 Sep 2007]
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has overhauled project management procedures after writing off £118m on a ditched IT system. The Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO) - the MoD's internal buying arm - canned a single common inventory project called...
[03 Nov 2003]
whitepaper The programme, designed by training provider QA, was developed in response to the MoD's decision to outsource its IT function. It aims to provide over 200 MoD staff with a demonstrable baseline level of skill.
[09 Jun 2006]
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 said will be critical to the successful...
[01 Apr 2005]
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, according to the MoD, to enable it...
[11 Mar 2005]
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 consequences".
[22 Jan 2008]
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 we chose BeCrypt was its ability to deliver...
[08 May 2008]
News Suppliers to the MoD have been issued with a bulletin asking them to attend a meeting on 26 July to talk about the system known as the Defence Information Infrastructure (DII). The three armed services and the MoD will be linked together using...
[27 Jun 2002]
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 studied examples of IT failures at home and...
[27 Jun 2003]
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) centres which the MoD runs...
[02 Aug 2007]
News The deal follows a £24m pilot of the Defence Learning Portal (DLP), a system that gives MoD employees individual access to training resources. Rear Admiral Simon Goodall, director of general training at the MoD, said: "Training people for military...
[14 Sep 2005]
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 to detail the cost savings targets but the...
[01 Nov 2004]
News The software is aimed at improving the coordination of army equipment, including jets and artillery forces on the battlefield - currently done manually - as the MoD moves to what it calls a "digitised battlespace".
[29 Jul 2004]
News Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that his company may pull its Xbox game console from the Australian market because of a court decision that legitimises "mod chips" for hackers, according to an Australian newspaper.
[22 Oct 2002]
News Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) is to lead a consortium of providers bidding for the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) £300m-a-year public private partnership (PPP) IT outsourcing contract. The Radii Consortium, which also includes BT, Cap Gemini...
[20 May 2003]
News The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has rejected opposition claims that its planned investment in new technology is actually a "smokescreen" for cost-cutting. In a speech on Thursday to announce the publication of a white paper detailing the MOD plans...
[11 Dec 2003]
News 26.11.98 The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) poured £34.6m into an IT system which was never used, according to a report from the National Audit Office (NAO), the organisation which monitors central government spending.
[26 Nov 2003]
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 very seriously and we are taking steps to...
[13 Mar 2008]
Photo Photo credit: MoD The MoD will take on 700 of the SSARF, which will be supplied to close combat forces for targeting and surveillance. Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD A UK army soldier tests out the surveillance system and range finder (SSARF).
[18 Feb 2008]
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 MoD will use Infonic's Geo-Replication software, which...
[05 Nov 2007]
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