Siemens Mops Up Immigration IT Contract
News The UK's Immigration and Nationality Directorate has welcomed back an IT supplier which was at the centre of its previous computer failures. The £6.7m outsourcing contract marks a return to the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) for the...
[February 22, 2006, 15:40]
Atos Wins Immigration Deal
News The Home Office has awarded a £200m IT infrastructure contract to cover the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND), it announced on Tuesday. Home Office Minister, Des Browne, said: "Atos Origin demonstrated to us that they have the expertise...
[August 11, 2004, 12:25]
ID Card Details Emerge In Bill
News The Home Office said that the new executive agency which will issue the cards will incorporate functions of the UK Passport Service and Immigration and Nationality Directorate. The identity register is to hold a range of information including...
[November 30, 2004, 14:25]
MP: ID Card Scheme Is 'doomed To Failure'
News One is the government's decision to use three existing databases — those of the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), the Identity and Passport Service and the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) — to store people's biometric and...
[January 15, 2007, 12:36]
US Budgets $1bn For Homeland Security IT
News Alexander's tiny three-person staff, including herself and the department's Science and Technology Directorate to which she reports, are already swamped with reviewing more than 3,000 proposals that have been submitted to the department, she said.
[August 1, 2003, 8:50]
Police Chief's Departure Won't Halt E-crime Plans
News The assistant commissioner of the Specialist Crime Directorate, Steve House, will be Wilkinson's interim replacement. SOCA was formed in May 2006 as an amalgamation of the NHTCU, National Crime Squad (NCS), National Criminal Intelligence Service...
[October 4, 2007, 16:03]
Security Experts Criticise Government Database Plans
News The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) and the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) databases would be combined to store people's biometric and biographic information.
[January 19, 2007, 11:28]
Report Raises Doubts Over EPassport Project
News The NAO said there was "insufficient liaison" between the IPS and the Immigration and Nationality Directorate, the agency responsible for upgrading readers at borders. The Identity and Passport Service has completed the launch of ePassports on time...
[February 8, 2007, 16:06]
