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The Government has recently ended its £750m border security contract with a Raytheon-led consortium and said it had no confidence in the U.S. company.
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£755m UK border contract scrapped
By Lorraine Turner
Friday, 23 July 2010
The Government ended its £750m border security contract with a consortium led by Raytheon yesterday, saying it had no confidence in the [...]

6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 26th 2010

This year the MoD Group Conference was held in the Holiday Inn which was a long trek from the Group hotel. Business started at 9 in the morning and finished at 5.30 in the evening with an hour for lunch. Once again I was on the Standing Orders Committee which ensures the conference [...]

10 Comments CherryPie on May 24th 2010

The February edition of PCS Defender publishes a letter about the media distortion regarding MoD pay, pensions, bonuses and civil servants in general.  The letter was written to Conservative defence spokesperson Liam Fox MP by a PCS member.  The letter sums up how a great many civil servants feel about the media frenzy that is [...]

6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 10th 2010

A recent edition of DefenceFocus featured an interview with Jon Thompson, MoD Director General of Finance, who oversees the MoD’s £35 billion budget. Within the interview he exposes some of the myths portrayed in the media:
DF:  How much media coverage about the MoD’s coffers is true?
JT: Some of it is not accurate. It’s [...]

1 Comment CherryPie on Jan 31st 2010

Those of you who have been following me for some time will know I have a particular interest in Defence issues.  One of the campaigns I have been involved in is about proving that the move (and privatisation) of Defence Training to a new Academy in Wales is not the best option for serving our [...]

4 Comments CherryPie on Jan 13th 2010

I have been saying to my colleagues for some time that I thought that the Defence Support Group was a prime target for privatisation with supporting reasons why. As usual they looked at me as if I was talking in some sort of foreign language and then moved swiftly on. So I was [...]

6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 11th 2010

I really should be blogging about the Defence cuts, but it will only annoy me and I am sure you have all heard about it on the news anyway. I would however recommend this article if you haven’t seen it already.
You probably know that Facebook changed some of it’s privacy settings recently.  Facebook is able [...]

9 Comments CherryPie on Dec 15th 2009

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