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Government Overspends On IT By £1bn
News If the Ministry of Defence can waste nearly £800m on IT overspend, we can have little confidence that the £20bn Trident replacement will be delivered to budget. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has gone the furthest over budget, overspending by £785m.
[May 11, 2007, 17:53]
Accelerated Decrepitude
Blog In my defence: Maplin didn't have the USB experimenter's kit I wanted, and the tiny keyring LED torch and matt-black wind-up wireless at Muji were to die for.but. You know that something's gone wrong when you walk down Tottenham Court Road to pick...
[November 25, 2007, 18:06]
Pentagon Database To Spy On Americans
News A Defence Department notice suggested that the "annual budget for each is in the $200,000 to $1m (£126,428 to £632,143) range. The US Defence Department has awarded millions of dollars to more than two-dozen research projects that involve a...
[February 28, 2003, 11:36]
Gov't Departments Hike Spending On IT Upgrades
News The Ministry of Defence; the Department for International Development; the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform; and the Department of Communities and Local Government refused to answer, citing disproportionate costs.
[November 3, 2008, 8:35]
SGI To Unveil New Supercomputer
News Military and defence contracting have also increased since September 2001, Snell said. Concern about US national defence is also a contributing factor. The bulk of the budget increases, which are classified, comes from the effort to create a...
[November 11, 2002, 15:36]
Attacks Shouldn't Shake Tech Industry
News Defence companies and disaster recovery companies likely will gain right away. This means we could see an acceleration of the transformation Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld has planned.We may be likely to see more spending on ISR (intelligence...
[September 17, 2001, 16:03]
Linux Considered For GPS Rival
News In an exclusive interview with ZDNet UK, Pat Norris, UK business development manager for Logica CMG's Space and Defence Division, said that he wouldn't rule out using open-source software in certain systems as part of the integrator's £5.2m...
[February 6, 2004, 12:00]
Oracle Buys PeopleSoft
News Oracle had been scheduled to appear in court on Monday for a hearing on PeopleSoft's "poison pill" anti-takeover defence. Beyond sparring with PeopleSoft over the poison pill defence, Oracle has fought with the Department of Justice, European...
[December 13, 2004, 11:10]
Security Tightened After 'Needlepoint' Virus
News Department of defence. I had total profit and loss responsibility of a locally run office with a $10 million budget and more than 120 consultants. So often, we spend so much of our time and budget worrying about and trying to prevent outside...
[November 15, 2002, 19:31]
MoD Marches Tech Plans Forward
News The MoD's R&D staff work in a variety of departments, including Science Innovation Technology, which manages around £500m of the research budget, Defence Equipment and Support, which manages some £2bn of project expenditure, and the Defence...
[November 16, 2007, 10:07]
MOD: Military Spending To Favour Tech
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...
[December 11, 2003, 16:45]
Singapore Government Deploys OpenOffice.org On 5,000 PCs
News Singapore's Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) has large-scale plans for deploying OpenOffice.org on Windows PCs, a MINDEF spokeswoman told ZDNet UK on Tuesday. With our limited budget, we are always exploring opportunities to maximise the value for...
[November 2, 2004, 9:46]
Cyberattacks Target UK's National Infrastructure
News Sustained cyber-espionage attacks are being waged on companies that play a key role in the Britain's national infrastructure, a UK cyber-defence chief has warned. In the US, the Department of Homeland Security's National Cybersecurity Division has...
[October 30, 2008, 6:30]
Bush Beefs Up Cybercrime Spending
News The record budget request for the 2005 fiscal year, which begins on 1 October, 2004, asks Congress to ignore a widening deficit of $521bn and to increase defence spending by 7 percent and homeland security spending by 10 percent.
[February 3, 2004, 9:10]
Telepresence Used To Boost Afghan Troops' Morale
News Back in July, the Ministry of Defence said it was considering trialling telepresence technology to offset its travel budget. Nato is using high-end videoconferencing technology in an attempt to boost morale among servicemen and women serving in...
[September 23, 2008, 10:28]
US Report: Gore Takes The Wraps Off 'Internet2' Initiative
News Gore also announced $50 (£29.8M) in new funding for Internet projects by the Department of Defence's Advanced Research Projects Agency. The 1 1/2-year-old project is tied to the Clinton administration's Next Generation Internet initiative, which is...
[April 15, 1998, 8:47]
Clinton Tackling Cyber Terrorism
News Building crime detection networks, starting with the Department of Defence. The president's Cyber Corps plan will be included in his fiscal 2000 budget proposal next month. Speaking at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.
[January 25, 1999, 9:33]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In it, you get to be the Japanese Gordon Brown and get to set various spending targets on things like defence, building, health and so on. Yosan Sakusei Game, or the 'Let's Be The Minister Of Finance And Work On The Budget' Game.
[July 29, 2005, 18:30]
China Shifts Space Race To Software
News Zhang Qingwei, general manager of CAST, said the software should extend beyond the aerospace sector for which it was developed, to national defence and the vast domestic market, such as automobile and electronics manufacturers.
[November 13, 2003, 10:25]
MikeRoweSoft Settles For An Xbox
News Rowe has offered to return any money donated to his defence fund. According to the site, Rowe decided to settle because he didn't have a fraction of Microsoft's resources and couldn't face spending the next few years in a courtroom: "I have a...
[January 26, 2004, 8:25]
