Ministry Of Defence

UK will be HQ for high-flying next-gen fighter jet treaty with Italy, Japan

Global Combat Air Program aims to replace Eurofighter Typhoon and Mitsubishi F-2

Public Sector18 Dec 2023 | 71

Britain's Ministry of Defence fined £350K over Afghan interpreter BCC email blunder

UK GDPR penalty slashed from £1M after department agrees to improve processes

Public Sector13 Dec 2023 | 16

UK MoD braves the weather to train maritime AI capabilities

We will scan them on the beaches

AI + ML02 Nov 2023 | 18

UK procurement is too glacial to bring AI into defense, MPs told

Projects take so long that tech is out of date before it enters service, industry says

Public Sector25 Sep 2023 | 16

Grant Shapps named UK defense supremo in latest 'tech-savvy' Tory tale

Comment He praised Apple for its 'open source' tech – now he'll oversee AI use to defend Britain from its foes

Bootnotes31 Aug 2023 | 98

UK launches SKYNET – not a doomsday plot, just shopping for improved satellite comms

They really need to start branding these things better

Networks05 Jun 2023 | 14

Defense boffins take notes from sci-fi writers on the future of warfare

Neat! Everything's gonna be just like Call of Duty!

Offbeat02 Mar 2023 | 29

UK's Ministry of Defence awards Boxxe multimillion Microsoft license deal

Contract seeks 'support with the renewal and running of Microsoft Enterprise Agreement'

Software12 Jul 2022 | 6

British Army Twitter and YouTube feeds hijacked by crypto-promos

If you can't defend against crypto bros…

Security04 Jul 2022 | 61

UK Ministry of Defence takes recruitment system offline, confirms data leak

Exclusive Info of those signing up to be soldiers leaked, as sources finger Capita-run system

Security24 Mar 2022 | 49

Wifinity hands customers bills for Wi-Fi services they didn't want but used by accident after software 'glitch' let 'fixed term' subs continue

Firm admits problem and then tries to cash in from own screwup

Networks23 Dec 2021 | 49

RAF shoots down 'terrorist drone' over US-owned special ops base in Syria

£200k Anglo-French heat-seeking missile does its thing

Security17 Dec 2021 | 112

UK's £5bn National Cyber Force HQ to be sited in Lancashire beside Defence Secretary's constituency

How convenient for influx of potential new voters

Security04 Oct 2021 | 35

UK MoD data strategy calls for social media surveillance on behalf of 'local authorities'

Updated From a document supposedly about better use of existing silos. Eh?

Security30 Sep 2021 | 38

UK Ministry of Defence apologises – again – after another major email blunder in Afghanistan

This time affecting candidates for potential relocation

Security23 Sep 2021 | 35

UK Ministry of Defence apologises after Afghan interpreters' personal data exposed in email blunder

We joke about lethal consequences of failure but this isn't funny

Security21 Sep 2021 | 59

Royal Navy will be getting autonomous machines – for donkey work humans can't be bothered with

DSEI 2021 No robot killers 'in my lifetime' says admiral

AI + ML17 Sep 2021 | 37

Computer and data scientists should be as highly regarded as 'warriors' says top UK cybergeneral

DSEI 2021 Translation: Skills shortage here!

Security16 Sep 2021 | 42

UK gives military's frikkin' laser cannon project a second roll of the dice

DSEI 2021 First try had a habit of melting its mirrors, apparently

Science14 Sep 2021 | 33

Fancy joining the SAS's secret hacker squad in Hereford as an electronics engineer for £33k?

Hey MoD, nice to hear from you. What? Not secret any more, you say?

Security13 Aug 2021 | 54

UK's Ministry of Defence coughs up bug bounties for crowdsourced pentesting

Small steps could lead to bigger strides

Security03 Aug 2021 | 11

UK Special Forces soldiers' personal data was floating around WhatsApp in a leaked Army spreadsheet

Exclusive Bizarre promotion practice leads to near-inevitable breach

Security02 Jun 2021 | 76

MoD: Our networks are in 'unacceptable' state and both data and IT bods are stuck in silos

So if the generals would lend us a few bob to fix it that'd be nice of them

Networks28 May 2021 | 34

Ministry of Defence tells contractors not to answer certain UK census questions over security fears

But there are legal protections... right?

Security19 Mar 2021 | 204

What's the price of failure? For Capita, it's a £140m extension to its MoD recruiting contract

Yes, the one that cost the British Army 25,000 new soldiers when IT went live

On-Prem14 Dec 2020 | 11

UK Ministry of Defence: We won't prosecute bug bounty hunters – oh btw, we now have one of those

'Better late than never' opines industry bod

Security10 Dec 2020 | 19

Are you seeing this, Amazon? British military steps up robot tech tests with drone capable of carrying 60kg payloads

Rise of the Machines Aerial ammo deliveries – always handy when you're storming a beach

Edge + IoT05 Nov 2020 | 28

Russia and China's 'digital authoritarianism' means we need to better arm our cyber troops, warns top UK general

New era, new weapons needed, says Chief of the Defence Staff

Security02 Oct 2020 | 28

Airbus drone broke up in-flight because it couldn’t handle Australian weather

‘Zephyr’ is designed to either beam down data or spy for weeks, but lasted about 90 minutes

Science29 Sep 2020 | 67

We want weaponised urban drones flying through your house, says UK defence ministry as it waves a fistful of banknotes

£150k up for grabs if you can help create the dystopian future of warfare

Edge + IoT16 Sep 2020 | 62

Be very afraid! British Army might scrap battle tanks for keyboard warriors – report

Before you go all Colonel Blimp, remember it's budget-setting season

Security25 Aug 2020 | 93

Capita's bespoke British Army recruiting IT cost military 25k applicants after switch-on

Taxpayers shelled out £1.3bn for this 'abysmal' flop

Security22 Jul 2020 | 95

We'll pay £400k for a depth charge-proof robot submarine, says UK's Ministry of Defence

British military continues push for new autonomous tech

Bootnotes07 Jul 2020 | 23

BT and Serco among bidders competing to run Britain's unfortunately named Skynet military satellite system

Hollywood was right!

Networks18 Jun 2020 | 21

British Army pulls up its SOC: New regiment to do infosec work even civvies will recognise

That's Systems Operating Centre to you. Chuffed with that, says Royal Signals brigadier

Security05 Jun 2020 | 21

Competition? We've heard of it. MoD snubs cloud rivals to hand Microsoft £17.7m Azure hosted services gig

Only the beast of Redmond could meet 'data sovereignty and reliability' needs, says UK.gov department

SaaS22 May 2020 | 26

UK's Ministry of Defence: We'll harvest and anonymise private COVID-19 apps' tracing data by handing it to 'behavioural science' arm

Analysis Plus: Serco plays email fail game by mass-mailing human contact tracers; NCSC gives feedback on feedback about beta app

Security20 May 2020 | 50

Brit defense contractor hacked, up to 100,000 past and present employees' details siphoned off – report

Outsourcer Interserve holds a number of UK defense contracts, among others

Security15 May 2020 | 5

Browse mode: We're not goofing off on the Sidebar of Shame and online shopping sites, says UK's Ministry of Defence

Its servers merely record more HTTPS requests to Mail Online and Amazon than anywhere else

Bootnotes01 May 2020 | 49

Ministry of Defence lowers supplier infosec standards thanks to COVID-19 outbreak

Updated Can't get assessors on-site to check SMEs' antivirus updates

Security20 Apr 2020 | 4

British Army adopts WhatsApp for formal orders as coronavirus isolation kicks in

Yh capten 🎖 bruv, charlie fireteam brups  dat tr33line 🌳 at 9 🕘

Bootnotes18 Mar 2020 | 84

'Peregrine falcon'-style drone swarms could help defend UK against Gatwick copycat attacks

MoD offshoot names winners who dipped into £2m anti-drone ideas pot o' gold

Security05 Nov 2019 | 63

Second MoD Airbus Zephyr spy drone crashes on Aussie test flight

Delicate thing doesn't like turbulence, apparently

Edge + IoT09 Oct 2019 | 41

Auditors bemoan time it takes for privatised RAF pilot training to produce combat-ready aviators

Seven years from noob to pro

On-Prem05 Sep 2019 | 80

Army Watchkeeper drone flopped into tree because crew were gazing backwards

Live footage of runway and grass verge more compelling than actual flight instruments

Edge + IoT29 Aug 2019 | 97

An Army Watchkeeper drone tried to land. Then meatbags took over from the computers

Operators cut throttle during go-around. Aircraft crashed

Security13 Aug 2019 | 90

New British Army psyops unit fires rebrandogun, smoke clears to reveal... I'm sorry, Dave...

Logowatch This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardise it

Security01 Aug 2019 | 63

All very MoD-ern: RAF test pilot headed into space with Virgin, £30m small sat demo project

Roundup Defence ministry gets with the Apollo vibes

Security19 Jul 2019 | 11

British Army down thousands of soldiers after outsourcing recruitment IT to Capita

But have latest changes finally made a positive difference?

On-Prem16 May 2019 | 45

May Day! PM sacks UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson for Huawei 5G green-light 'leak'

Updated Denies wrongdoing, replaced by one-time junior MoD minister Penny Mordaunt

Security01 May 2019 | 190

Brit Watchkeeper drone fell in the sea because blocked sensor made algorithms flip out

Report scolds maker Thales for poorly understood software

Security15 Apr 2019 | 119

Just the small matter of the bill for scrapping Blighty's old nuclear submarines: It's £7.5bn

Fun fact: We haven't dismantled a single one. Ever

Security03 Apr 2019 | 151

Army had 'naive' approach to Capita's £1.3bn recruiting IT contract, MPs told

£26m 'deducted' from payments but Public Accounts Committee remains sceptical

On-Prem15 Jan 2019 | 80

Big data at sea: How the Royal Navy charts the world's oceans

Boatnotes Warships don't only sink the nation's enemies, you know

Science21 Nov 2018 | 97

Yikes. UK military looking into building 'fully autonomous' killer drone tech – report

MoD insists there will always be a human at the wheel

Legal12 Nov 2018 | 65

UK defence secretary ponders £50m hit to terminate Capita recruiting contract

Army short of 5,000 grunts, MPs warned

On-Prem18 Oct 2018 | 70