Government agency dedicates package of funding to ten individual projects using satellites, Earth observation and data analytics intended to help support green financing initiatives and enable businesses to embrace sustainability […]...

Senior Cabinet Office official tells committee of MPs that, following testing exercises for national alert system as far back as 2013, ‘no one was willing to pay’ for wider rollout […]...

Environment department also reveals plans to exit from three legacy datacentres this summer and halve the proportion of contractors in its digital workforce to about one in eight by 2025 […]...

Defra has announced the appointment of Cabinet Office bigwig Nick Joicey as its second permanent secretary, operations chief, and leader of the environment department’s work focused on science and analytics […]...

University of Edinburgh team unveils automated tool that will shortly be turned into smartphone app A consortium of researchers in Scotland have developed artificial intelligence technology intended said to modernise […]...

Environment department picks IT services giants for contracts The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has awarded two major contracts for app-development services worth a cumulative £150m. Recently published […]...

Environment department replaces incumbent contract a year before expiry The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has expanded its engagement with Amazon Web Services and signed a £20m-plus deal […]...