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MoD Refuses To Account For Missing Computer Equipment
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is refusing to respond to Parliamentary questions, tabled in late October, which revealed that nearly 600 computers had disappeared from the department in the last five years, according to a Liberal Democrat MP.
[January 15, 2002, 13:30]
MoD Gives Scores Of Applications Their Marching Orders
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) hopes to save £10m by cutting 150 unnecessary software applications. The MoD application rationalisation project is part of the Defence Information Exploitation programme which runs alongside the Defence Information...
[February 8, 2006, 15:20]
MoD Boosts Military Ops With More PCs
News 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 Information Infrastructure (Future), or DII(F), programme to provide around 150,000 computer terminals...
[October 11, 2007, 10:51]
MoD Wastes £30m On Failed IT Projects
News Already under fire from its own accounts department for scrapping 25 major IT projects, the National Audit Office reveals today that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has wasted nearly £30m on two IT projects.
[January 19, 2000, 16:06]
MoD Implements Bespoke MCDST Programme
White Papers 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.
[June 9, 2006, 0:00]
MoD Admits Loss Of Over 11,000 ID Cards
News In a statement, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said: "We take the loss of military ID cards very seriously and we are taking steps to improve general security awareness. The government has suffered many data-security breaches over the past five...
[March 14, 2008, 7:31]
MoD Targets £174m Savings From £4bn IT Deal
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...
[November 1, 2004, 12:14]
MoD Gives Scores Of Applications Their Marching Orders
Talkback As a Tax payer I am very pleased that that at least one part of MoD is joining the 21st centuary. Other MoD departments need now to do the same they are generating too many Defects Per Million Opportunities (DPMO) - I know as have been invlved in...
[February 9, 2006, 11:03]
MoD Sends Skynet Satellite Into Orbit
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said its antennae technology and powerful transmission capabilities will provide a significant boost to the operational capability of the army, Royal Navy and RAF. The first Skynet 5 satellite of the £3bn-plus...
[November 19, 2007, 11:43]
MoD: Tech Scheme Not 'unmitigated Disaster'
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has responded to a joint investigation by Channel 4 News and Computer Weekly which claimed the project was massively behind schedule and would cost an extra £1bn. But the MoD admitted that last year it had been hit by...
[November 19, 2007, 10:49]
MOD: Military Spending To Favour Tech
Talkback The UK's MOD decision to target high tech strategies carries risks. Repeatedly officers lose laptops containing sensitive information. My own company has now developed a unique system for tracking and recovering stolen PCs.
[December 13, 2003, 13:05]
MoD Encrypts Laptops After Data Losses
News A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said: "There was a feeling that there was a need for stringent security standards and the reason we chose BeCrypt was its ability to deliver full hard-drive encryption quickly.
[May 9, 2008, 9:25]
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]
'Mod' Squad Hacks Away At Xbox
News Microsoft representatives have said the company is investigating legal options to stop distribution of mod chips. A second "mod chip", an add-on chip for the console that lets consumers play pirated discs and other applications on their consoles...
[June 19, 2002, 8:38]
MoD Marches Tech Plans Forward
News The Defence Technology Plan (DTP) will take the Ministry of Defence's (MoD's) current Defence Technology Strategy forward and be fully up and running by late 2008. The MoD claims the DTP will allow industry and academia to better direct investment...
[November 16, 2007, 10:07]
Photos: MoD Unveils £80m IT Health Programme
News 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 Defence (MoD) runs around the globe, as well as field hospitals and 25 Royal Navy ships.
[August 2, 2007, 16:30]
Millennium Bug: Erm, We're Not Ready - MOD, Inland Rev.
News 20 percent of government departments, including the MOD and the Inland Revenue are not ready for the bug. MOD spokesman Marcus de Ville admitted critical defence systems still to be made bug-compliant include weapon systems, army vehicles and naval...
[June 18, 1999, 14:55]
MoD Loses 600,000 Personal Details
News The laptop contained the personal data of 600,000 people who have joined, or expressed an interest in joining, the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines, and the Royal Air Force, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said in a statement on Friday.
[January 21, 2008, 13:38]
Mod-chipped Xbox 'can't Play Xbox Live' - Microsoft
News Microsoft has finally launched its Xbox Live online gaming service in Asia, but it faces a challenge in the region due to the prevalence of mod chips. Anecdotal evidence suggests that a large number of consoles owned in South-east Asia, Hong Kong...
[November 13, 2003, 9:20]
Satellite Story Is Rubbish Claims MOD
News The Fraud Squad are investigating a hacker who is accessing international sites but it has nothing to do with the MOD," he said. "The story is completely off the wall. Hackers can't and have not accessed our satellites.
[March 1, 1999, 16:13]
