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MOD leaps into the Cloud

Homeland September 7, 2016

September 6th saw Microsoft open its first UK Cloud based data centres, with the Ministry of Defence as its first customer. With Azure and Office 365 now generally available from multiple data centre locations in the UK, businesses and public sector organisations will see a digital transformation occur, allowing them to ...

Tools for data compression

Homeland September 7, 2016

Case study from the University of Sheffield who pitched their ideas to industry and investors at the CDE Marketplace on 6th September 2016. The University of Sheffield has used Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) funding to produce a suite of tools that highly compress large databases for use with a corresponding ...

New Minister meets Dstl staff at Porton Down

August 25, 2016

Just one month after starting in her new role, Harriett Baldwin MP, has visited staff at Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) at Porton Down. Having taken over as Minister for Defence Procurement from Philip Dunne MP, in Prime Minister Theresa May’s reshuffle, Mrs Baldwin was eager to meet staff and see first-hand the ...

Encryption: addressing the cyber threat to UK defence

Homeland July 2, 2016

Ahead of last year’s Strategic Defence and Security Review, Chancellor George Osborne announced plans to double spend on cyber security by 2020. MOD DCB features writer Gemma Gaughan spoke to Dr Phil Jones, Head of Cyber Security and Richard Goodall, Head of Cyber Security Engineering at Airbus Defence and Space ...