Defence Information Infrastructure (DII)

[moorfield]

Anyone see the piece on Channel 4 news this evening about this ailing MoD project - looks like another shambolic IT delivery sponsored by General Broon and Captain Darling in conjunction with EDS.

Anyone worked / working on this care to comment ?

[Sockpuppet]

I use this as an end user and its a bag o-wink to put it mildly.

[TimberWolf]

Ooh, can AtW write something intelligent, insightful and thought provoking here about how money laundering in accomplished by the West, pretty please?

[Clippy]

Ooh, can AtW write something intelligent, insightful and thought provoking here about how money laundering in accomplished by the West, pretty please?

Nay chance man.

[Troll]

Is it self aware yet?

[Sockpuppet]

It can't even get e-mail properly. Self aware is a long way off.

[gingerjedi]

It can't even get e-mail properly. Self aware is a long way off.

I think he was referring to AtW.

I have first hand experience of this and yes people aren't entirely happy as they were promised an improved system but in reality they have reduced functionality as many packages won't work or links to satellite systems have been severed, couple that with civil servants reluctance to change... you get the picture.

[DimPrawn]

Anyone see the piece on Channel 4 news this evening about this ailing MoD project - looks like another shambolic IT delivery sponsored by General Broon and Captain Darling in conjunction with EDS.

Anyone worked / working on this care to comment ?

Sounds like another astounding New Labour "investment" of tax payers money.

[gingerjedi]

Sounds like another astounding New Labour "investment" of tax payers money.

It goes much deeper than that, fingers, pies, US government etc etc... The idea is sound but to be fair a project of this magnitude is bound to have several setbacks and I guess the blame has to lie with whoever signed it off as acceptable, they obviously didn't understand what was really required as ATLAS are just giving them what they agreed.

[malvolio]

I was working on this in the early days, trying to get agreement on master support arrangements mainly, but also on core functionality. Only three real problems with it:

- it's operated by EDS on their usual horrible contractual basis that absolves them from everything
- the core design is unworkable and should never have been passed as fit for purpose
- the execution is seriously hampered by the need for the security layers involved, which kill the total nett capacity (one 2Mb video clip got circulated early on and brought it to its knees).

Apart from that, they can't get good staff (like me, for example ) to sort it out because of the security rules so have to keep recycling the same 'experts' to do it.

Otherwise it's a pile of doggie doos. But am I bovvered?