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Home Office to bring together police and immigration biometrics schemes ahead of potential move to public cloud
Department seeks supplier to bring IDENT 1 and IABS programmes under single service-management structure in project worth a possible £300m
MoD picks former BP exec Charles Forte as new CIO
Ministry concludes search for Mike Stone’s replacement with appointment of external candidate
Failure to renew security certificate fells Conservative website
Party makes IT gaffe on day of major reshuffle
Government advises all businesses and individuals to take urgent action against microchip flaws
Concern still mounting about ‘most disturbing issue to hit the industry for decades’
GDS seeks new cybersecurity chief
Organisation recruiting for role heading up ‘small, but growing team’
Government explores mobile emergency alert system for major incidents
Supplier sought to kick off project by engaging with the big four mobile network operators
Police and fire services in Yorkshire and north east launch £60m mobile framework
Group of 15 public bodies pool their requirements for devices and data
Apple works with HMRC and police to help combat iTunes scammers posing as tax officials
Public urged to be vigilant of fraud in which victims are instructed to buy digital vouchers to pay fictitious tax bills
Scottish Government launches project to build online identity-assurance service
Holyrood looks to build platform similar to the GDS’s Verify tool
UK Space Agency to offer public sector workers crash course in satellite applications
Space for Smarter Government Programme plans two one-day courses to introduce public servants to satellite technology
The ten key questions – and nine answers – facing the public sector on GDPR
With less than six months until new data-protection law is introduced, PublicTechnology hears from regulators and data professionals across central and local government about what they see as the major challenges facing them between now and 25 May
Border IT systems ‘unlikely’ to be Brexit-ready by 2019, PAC finds
MPs flag Whitehall’s poor record at delivering critical border programmes
IoT, gamification, and blockchain in focus for second cohort of GCHQ Cyber Accelerator
Nine companies to make the cut given the chance to present their technology to digital minister
Think tanks call on government to invest in blockchain
Two reports – from Reform and Lord Holmes – flag up the transformational potential of the distributed ledger technology
MoD pledges to ‘put science and technology at the core of our Armed Forces’
Department publishes new strategy document that looks to embed technology in both strategy and operations
UK Hydrographic Office seeks trio of leaders to steer it into digital waters
Executive agency of MoD recruiting £117,000 CTO and two other senior posts
NAO says preventable WannaCry damage shows DoH and NHS must ‘get their act together’
National Audit Office report also points to a lack of coordination in response to attack, which the government has concluded was conducted by North Korea
Barnsley council looks to unite security in £1m package as part of supplier-rationalisation drive
South Yorkshire authority issues contract notice for three year-plus deal
All prison officers in England and Wales to get body-worn cameras
Government spends £2m on equipping 5,600 staff with technology designed to improve safety
Local Government Association calls for Budget to provide cybersecurity funding to councils
Membership body for local authorities bids for money from the Cabinet Office
MoD and Home Office put £1.6m into robot and drone projects for hazardous environments
Four UK tech SMEs have received backing for technologies designed to safely assess the potential presence of dangerous matter