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10,000 Ministry of Defence staff & troops, including Britain’s troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, get online access to shared info & HR systems
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10,000 military and civilian staff of the UK Ministry of Defence will for the first time gain online access to MOD information services such as human resources systems, following the completion of a major project led jointly by Capgemini and Microsoft.
Users in locations around the world – including Britain’s troops in Iraq and Afghanistan – will be able to use credit-card style chip-and-pin authentication via the Government Gateway to obtain secure ‘self-service’ access to MOD HR systems for a variety of purposes, including filing their expenses, updating their personal details and booking themselves on training courses.
The new procedures follow the successful completion of the 18-month Internet Access to Shared Services (IASS) project carried out in collaboration with Capgemini, Microsoft, several units within the MOD and specialist IT vendors. As a result of new security processes developed as part of the IASS project, secure access to MOD shared services is expected to be available to MOD personnel from any PC, laptop or mobile phone with an Internet connection on an ‘any place, any time’ basis.
Following successful trials with defence units in several parts of the world, the new system will be rolled out in 2009 to some 10,000 MOD staff, mostly in overseas locations, who will now for the first time have easy and secure access to MOD internal information systems.