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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]
MoD goes online in £45m procurement manoeuvre
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to invest £45m in an online trading platform as part of a ten-year ecommerce strategy. The Defence Electronic Commerce Service (DECS) project, which will allow the MoD to tender its procurement requirements on the... [24 Jul 2000]
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 Skynet 5 and is compatible with Nato systems. [28 Sep 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 move and also give IT workers the ability to... [12 Sep 2007]
MoD 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 forward and be fully up and running by late 2008. [15 Nov 2007]
MoD runs into political minefield over Y2K compliance
News The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is being accused of trying to hide its millennium bug problem for fear of generating national panic. In the space of four months, 4,500 systems that were once considered critical to national security have... [24 Jan 1999]
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 and MoD personnel, will use... [19 Jun 2008]
In brief: MoD denies security scare
News A UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) spokesman today denied press reports that a hacker has broken into its internal systems. Reports claimed MoD chiefs have appealed to the US Pentagon for help after hackers broke into top-secret military files held on... [21 Sep 1998]
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 to stretch that to 20 per... [07 Aug 2007]
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 we chose BeCrypt was its ability to deliver... [08 May 2008]
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 very seriously and we are taking steps to... [13 Mar 2008]
MoD fires up £5m incident reporting contract
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has a signed a 10 year contract with LogicaCMG to provide an incident recording system. Under the terms of the contract, worth in excess of £5m, LogicaCMG will develop the MoD's Incident Recording Information System... [04 Jul 2007]
MoD unveils £4bn outsourcing shortlist
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to include strict performance-related penalty clauses for its £4bn 10-year IT outsourcing contract that will allow it to change the service provider after just three-years. [26 Jun 2003]
MoD slammed over friendly fire tech
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has failed to produce technology capable of protecting UK troops from 'friendly fire' incidents, according to MPs. The Committee of Public Accounts (CPA) said in a report the MoD has made "little progress" in the five... [01 May 2007]
MoD accused of wasting £34m on high-tech white elephant
News 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 1998]
