MoD splashes £1.5bn on 10-year IT deal to 'keep pace with threats' The Ministry of Defence has inked a ten-year deal worth £1.5bn with HP, Fujitsu, Airbus and CGI for IT and comms. The department estimates the mega contract will save £1bn over that period. However, the MoD is not known for having the best track record in delivering cost-efficient IT programmes. For example, the …
The Armed Forces employs approximately 180,000 people funnily enough.
http://www.armedforces.co.uk/mod/listings/l0003.html
Microsoft licenses are not concurrent. You have to license everyone who needs access.
Possibly all serving soldiers need a license to access DII
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Information_Infrastructure
You need access to the network to see your pay and administration workflow and send emails asking WTF is going on. To access the network you need to use a computer via a unique log-on. Ergo everyone needs a licence.
Although to be fair the Army didn't used to trust its junior ranks to even look at their pay and admin details online so there's probably a saving to be had there.
"23 000 in Procurement"
Twenty three fucking thousand useless arses in procurement? Defence procurement spend is about £17bn a year, so they're hitting the heady heights of about £3,500 per employee per working day.
My wife can spend money faster and more effectively than these clowns.
For example, the deliverability of its £7.3bn, 14-year defence IT programme due to be complete this year, was marked as "high risk" by the Major Projects Authority.
I saw the beginnings of Atlas as a contractor to a failed bidder and then brought in as one of a group of organisations deemed necessary for a successful bid from EDS to deliver. The whole thing was a mess. MoD didn't understand what they were asking for - and wrote specs that defied analysis, EDS took advantage of that, and contractors by the bucketful were in on day 1 working on relatively low level; functionality - without any decent view of the systems architecture, migration, security and actual operational requirements (believe me, a destroyers IT requirements do not fit with your standard SLA that seems more in tune with a (promised) BT home supply).
A mess from day 1. Failures by MOD, the senior managers within the winning consortium (who cynically began to manipulate the contract KPIs from day 1) and government. The fact that stuff got delivered was at least in part due to very hard work by the lower tier. I remember the adage, design top down, implement bottom up. Atlas was implemented bottom up all right, but it was bottom up implementation that forced the top down design.
Not pissed off at my tax money being wasted or anything you understand....
Not pissed off at my tax money being wasted or anything you understand....
At least they made savings by axing Nimrod MRA4. A pity that was after wasting £4bn on it, and then finding (amazingly) that we had no fucking maritime patrol aircraft when the Ruskies came sniffing round the Clyde.
And now we have that complete arsehole Michael Fallon telling us that he's extending a Tornado squadron's service life by a year, so as to rile IS (and increase the nominal terrorist threat to the UK), but he's completely incapable of saying "yes" when directly asked if this extension is due to the fact that successive governments have fucked up and left the RAF with no strike capability other than the antique Tornado, or the Typhoon with bombs sellotaped to its wings.
Defence ministers: Regardless of their party, what a bunch of unmitigated c*nts.
Ah so this is why why the useless fuckers can't supply my son (a sapper) with decent kit meaning he has to resort to buying his own if he wants something that's any good.
Might possibly be the best trained soldiers, but that's no good with piss poor kit.
And having dealt with Bristol I can confirm they are a useless bunch of pricks who were probably unemployable elsewhere.
Best place to start cuts is in the MoD civil servants.
Goat well and truly gotten
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