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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]
MoD contractors fall short on encryption
News A number of companies working on confidential UK defence information are not meeting government data-encryption requirements. One-quarter of contractors that either access the Ministry of Defence Restricted Network or who work on classified or...
[February 27, 2009, 10:26]
EDS to land £4bn military deal?
News EDS is reported to be on the verge of landing the £4bn outsourcing deal to run the UK's defence and armed forces IT infrastructure for the next 10 years. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has targeted £174m in efficiency savings through the Defence...
[February 28, 2005, 9:30]
MoD completes sale of QinetiQ stake
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) sold its remaining 19 percent stake in QinetiQ, previously the UK's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, on Tuesday, raising £254m for the taxpayer. The minister for defence equipment and support, Baroness Taylor...
[September 11, 2008, 0:01]
Capgemini Case Study: DECS
White Papers The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is a key Government department with extremely sensitive and broad ranging responsibilities. The MoD signed a 10 year managed services contract with Capgemini to provide and manage the Defence Electronic Service...
[May 4, 2006, 0:00]
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]
UK trailing USA in adoption of open source defence technology
Blog I am due to meet up soon with an open source enterprise content management (ECM) company called Alfresco whose success in the US may have lessons for us in the UK defence sector. Multifarious manifestations of Java and many other open source...
[October 19, 2009, 8:28]
EDS loses unencrypted armed-forces data
News 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 personal information. IT contractor EDS has lost a hard drive containing unencrypted...
[October 10, 2008, 11:55]
IT managers 'should be liable for harbouring cyberterrorists'
News Paul Strassman, lecturer on information terrorism at Washington's National Defence University and the Pentagon's former director of defence information, said that chief information officers in the UK who are operating vulnerable servers and...
[October 26, 2001, 18:03]
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. Baroness Taylor, minister for defence equipment and...
[November 19, 2007, 11:43]
UK army to buy subs, tanks and jets online
News The Ministry of Defence (MOD) launched the Defence Electronic Commerce Service (DECS) in conjunction with UK consultancy firm Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, which will supply the security infrastructure for all transactions.
[July 24, 2000, 12:16]
How to spot Echelon listening stations
News One such installation is RAF Menwith Hill, which is owned by the UK Ministry of Defence, and made available to the US Department of Defence as a communications facility. Most Echelon stations are, according to rapporteur Gerhard Schmid, operated...
[May 29, 2001, 16:12]
Pentium 'Classic' in short supply
News Demtere Cheras, systems director at UK PC vendor Elonex which sells heavily into defence and local government sectors, said he was nonplussed by the death of the vanilla Pentium. Even though Intel is keen to move users quickly to MMX, some big...
[July 23, 1997, 10:29]
Developers cautiously welcome Vista
News Rom Mannien, a developer at Dutch defence organisation DTO, said the changes in the user interface would probably improve the experience for novice computer users, but were irrelevant to him. Dutch defence organisation DTO is also unlikely to...
[September 15, 2005, 12:25]
Will there be a Beagle 3?
News As business development manager for Logica CMG's Space and Defence Division, Pat Norris has been charged with creating the IT infrastructure for some of Europe's more exotic public and private sector projects.
[February 6, 2004, 15:35]
British hacker shines light on poor IT security
News In an interview with ZDNet UK, McKinnon, who is on bail pending a hearing over his extradition case later in July, said that he was "frightened" to find US defence systems were open to "people from all over the world".
[July 13, 2005, 13:35]
MoD pays £150m for soldier tech
Blog When quizzed by ZDNet UK about a £100m budget cut for defence research and development announced in the summer, Davies said that the funding cut would not affect the Fist programme. The Ministry of Defence has announced that it will pay contractor...
[September 8, 2009, 17:35]
Outsourcing mega-deals double in 2003
News Datamonitor attributed the increase to new contract awards by the UK's National Health Service and the US Department of Defence. The defence sector came second with outsourcing deals worth $18.2bn, the company said.
[January 21, 2004, 11:45]
HP: EDS job cuts won't affect service delivery
News According to the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), which represents more than 2,000 EDS staff in the UK, the services provider has contracts with the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the Home Office...
[October 10, 2008, 9:59]
Management group warns CEOs of data-breach risks
News There are reports of cyber-espionage against the US defence industry and the UK by China," Twomey told ZDNet.co.uk on Wednesday. Twomey said chief executives need to concentrate not just on network-defence issues but also on disaster-recovery...
[May 8, 2008, 14:22]
