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Ministry of Defence criticised over EDS contract
News Last week, a consortium led by EDS won the contract for the second phase of the ATLAS project, the Ministry of Defence's information infrastructure, and at £4bn one of the largest public sector projects in the UK.
[January 11, 2007, 16:30]
performancesoft Case Study: The Ministry of Defence, London, UK
White Papers The Ministry of Defence is one of the largest government departments in the United Kingdom. In 2002 a Project Team within DESO established a requirement for an effective tool which would improve the quality and timeliness of performance information...
[May 20, 2005, 0:00]
Virus causes Ministry of Defence outages
News The Ministry of Defence's administrative system has been infected with a virus, the MoD said on Friday. Earlier this week the secretary of state for defence admitted that only 27 percent of MoD IT systems fully meet government security guidelines.
[January 16, 2009, 16:09]
Hackers attack Brazilian defence ministry
News On Wednesday, the Web site of Brazil's defence ministry became a hacking victim. According to a ministry's spokesperson, this is the first incident of its kind in the one and a half years the site has been in operation.
[January 12, 2001, 9:31]
MoD revises tally of stolen laptops to 658
News The Ministry of Defence has admitted that 658 laptops have been stolen over four years, with another computer stolen last week in Liverpool. As of January, those without full-disk encryption cannot leave secure Ministry of Defence (MoD) sites...
[July 22, 2008, 9:23]
Photos: MoD unveils £80m IT health programme
News The Ministry of Defence 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 Ministry of...
[August 2, 2007, 16:30]
MoD boosts military ops with more PCs
News The Ministry of Defence is deploying 3,300 computer terminals to help command military operations. The hardware rollout will cost an extra £270m on top of the original £2.3bn contract with the Atlas Consortium for the provision of the Defence...
[October 11, 2007, 10:51]
British troops get free Wi-Fi
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced that British troops on service in Iraq and Afghanistan will have a free wireless internet connection for the first time. The development is part of the defence ministry's Project Mercury programme, and...
[October 9, 2007, 14:54]
MoD loses 600,000 personal details
News The Ministry of Defence has admitted losing the details of 600,000 people after the theft of a laptop from a Royal Navy officer in Birmingham last week. The laptop contained the personal data of 600,000 people who have joined, or expressed an...
[January 21, 2008, 13:38]
IT failings cost MoD almost £300m
News Failings in computer systems used by the Ministry of Defence led to the loss of almost £300m in payments and equipment, the National Audit Office (NAO) has found. According to an NAO report into the MoD's 2008-09 accounts, published on Tuesday...
[July 22, 2009, 14:00]
MoD: Tech scheme not 'unmitigated disaster'
News The Ministry of Defence has moved to quash claims that its £4bn Defence Information Infrastructure programme is an "unmitigated disaster". The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has responded to a joint investigation by Channel 4 News and Computer Weekly...
[November 19, 2007, 10:49]
MoD to track its wheels
News The UK Ministry of Defence is developing a new technology infrastructure to manage wheeled and tracked vehicles. The Ministry of Defence recently awarded a £20m contract to Lockheed Martin UK and partners IFS Defence, LogicaCMG and INSYS to provide...
[August 26, 2004, 17:05]
EDS loses unencrypted armed-forces data
News IT contractor EDS has lost a hard drive containing unencrypted Ministry of Defence data. The Ministry of Defence confirmed to ZDNet.co.uk on Friday that a hard disk had been lost by EDS, but would not confirm that the removable hard disk contained...
[October 10, 2008, 11:55]
EDS to land £4bn military deal?
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has targeted £174m in efficiency savings through the Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) contract, which will overhaul the UK's defence IT infrastructure. Two separate sources close to the negotiations confirmed...
[February 28, 2005, 9:30]
French military opts for Linux cluster
News An agency of the French Ministry of Defence is planning to install a high-performance Linux cluster for technical and scientific work. This is not the first open source project that the French Ministry of Defence has embarked on.
[September 29, 2005, 16:20]
MoD on hunt for 'budding Qs'
News The Ministry of Defence is on the hunt for "budding Qs" to keep it supplied with the latest gadgetry, the department announced on Friday. Small businesses seeking to supply the Ministry of Defence (MoD) have been invited to meet up with the...
[November 17, 2008, 7:24]
Department of Health beats MoD for device losses
News Figures from the Ministry of Defence show that, so far this year, 59 memory sticks have gone missing and six have been stolen. The ministry has faired better in terms of theft, with 58 laptops reported stolen, against a peak of 272 in 2004.
[November 26, 2008, 10:20]
MoD announces data-protection action plan
News The Ministry of Defence has published an 'action plan' to implement all the recommendations of an official review of its data security. The comprehensive plan sets out how the Ministry of Defence (MoD) intends to meet the 51 recommendations made in...
[June 25, 2008, 16:56]
Military to trial enhanced RFID tags
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to trial enhanced RFID tags capable of being read from distances of up to 60m later this year in an attempt to improve the tracking of military supplies. Defence minister Adam Ingram told MPs this week: "The...
[March 1, 2006, 9:45]
MoD tech scheme hit by major delays
News In a report published on Thursday, the National Audit Office said that the late running of the Ministry of Defence's programme to replace hundreds of computer systems with a single, secure infrastructure has so far deprived the department of...
[July 4, 2008, 10:16]
