Ministry Of Defence

Beatings, killings, and lasting fear: The human toll of MoD's Afghan data breach

Research submitted to Parliament details deaths, raids, and mental trauma linked to 2022 relocation leak

Security28 Oct 2025 | 12

UK data regulator defends decision not to investigate MoD Afghan data breach

ICO says probe unnecessary after reviewing ministry's handling of leak

Security22 Oct 2025 | 31

Britain eyes satellite laser warning system and carrier-launched jet drones

Space sensors and UAVs at sea top MoD's list in new wave of cutting-edge projects

Edge + IoT07 Oct 2025 | 9

Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services

Deal promises sovereign datacenters, AI, and cybersecurity to strengthen communication links with US

PaaS + IaaS12 Sep 2025 | 20

UK patches air defense with 6 extra Land Ceptor missile launchers

Hmm, six, well, that's going to make Russia worry ...

Public Sector22 Aug 2025 | 33

UK's Ministry of Defence pins hopes on AI to stop the next massive email blunder

Australia's Castlepoint Systems recruited to avoid repeat of Afghan breach scandal

Public Sector06 Aug 2025 | 41

War Games: MoD asks soldiers with 1337 skillz to compete in esports

Troopers to swap radios for Turtle Beaches in preparation for ‘21st century challenges’

Cyber-crime29 Jul 2025 | 12

Britain's billion-pound F-35s not quite ready for, well, anything

Stealth jets can't fight, can't fly much, and can't shoot UK missiles, says NAO

Security15 Jul 2025 | 182

UK to buy nuclear-capable F-35As that can't be refueled from RAF tankers

Aircraft meant to bolster NATO deterrent will rely on allied support to stay airborne

Security26 Jun 2025 | 277

UK MoD pauses £92M Oracle Fusion contract amid project governance review

Last of Whitehall-wide ERP overhaul will not kick off until next year

Databases17 Jun 2025 | 5

UK CyberEM Command to spearhead new era of armed conflict

Government details latest initiative following announcement last week

Security04 Jun 2025 | 17

Royal Navy freshens up ships' electromagnetic warfare defenses

MEWSIC to Brit crews' ears will see off anti-ship missiles, among other things

Offbeat15 May 2025 | 44

UK Ministry of Defence is spending less with US biz, and more with Europeans

France's share of MOD cash is growing while the US's shrinks

Offbeat10 May 2025 | 80

UK armed forces fast-tracking cyber warriors to defend digital front lines

High starting salaries promised after public sector infosec pay criticized

Security10 Feb 2025 | 29

Robot dogs learn bomb disposal tricks in trials

'Fetch' just got a lot more interesting

Offbeat06 Feb 2025 | 17

UK Ministry of Defence gets into chipmaking game, buys gallium arsenide fab

State-owned semiconductor production: What is it planning to make there? It's classified

Systems30 Sep 2024 | 25

Britain's Ministry of Defence accused of wasting £174M on 'external advice'

Morpheus comms system online by 2025? You must be dreaming

Public Sector24 Jun 2024 | 50

UK opens investigation of MoD payroll contractor after confirming attack

China vehemently denies involvement

Cyber-crime08 May 2024 | 50

Legacy tech shoots down Ministry of Defence's supply chain improvements

How to manage 740 million items of behalf of the Armed Forces?

Public Sector23 Jan 2024 | 19

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 | 97

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 | 60

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 | 48

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 | 48

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