The UK Space Command has launched into space the first satellite to be wholly owned by the Ministry of Defence, with more craft to be launched in the coming months […]...
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DWP minister reiterates ‘no evidence prosecutions relied on Horizon’
Campaigners and parliamentarians have recently called for re-examination of scores of cases from the 2000s in which the Department for Work and Pensions brought criminal cases against Post Office staff […]...
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GDS signs £500k deal for ‘live cyberattack simulation’
Digital unit signs a specialist deal lasting two years and covering the provision of services to test digital defences with attacks aimed at ‘identifying and exploiting a variety of vulnerabilities’ […]...
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Departments asked to find tech efficiencies in spending review
The process of delivering the next government spending review, which will cover a period of only a single year, has now formally begun, with HM Treasury writing to departmental leaders […]...
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HMRC signs £19m deal to manage digital border services
Tax agency signs deal lasting up to three years to support tech teams in delivering trade services and creating ‘common framework for building, running and operating applications in the cloud’ […]...
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The best medicine: How the MHRA is using AI to support scientists and thwart threats
After tech helped the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency play a starring role in government’s coronavirus response, digital chief Claire Harrison tells PublicTechnology where the watchdog’s story went next […]...
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Whitehall graduate scheme reintroduces dedicated cyber track
The civil service Fast Stream graduate programme is to undergo another update, with the cyber element to be split out of the technology segment and given its own specialist focus […]...
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DWP grows trials of generative AI and reports ‘no immediate concerns’ from fairness assessment of fraud algorithm
In its annual report, department makes good on a pledge to develop, undertake and reveal the outcome of a fairness analysis, but declines to provide detailed findings of the process […]...
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UKHSA signs £900k deal to ‘streamline data operations’
The UK Health Security Agency has awarded a contract to Amazon Web Services, which the government body indicates is intended to help ensure consistency and data quality while reducing duplication […]...
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Staff at ONS to ramp up dispute over in-office demands
Since May, officials working for statistics agency have been required to spend two fifths of their hours in the office and, after non-compliance, are now set to take work-to-rule action […]...
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