All posts tagged "defence"

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  Revealed: winners of Australia’s public sector innovation awards

  A shared content management system for government agencies has been among winners of Australia’s new public sector innovation awards. The service titled ‘govCMS’ which has so far been bought by

  • Posted August 1, 2016
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  Patsy Wilkinson appointed new second permanent secretary at Britain’s Home Office

  Patsy Wilkinson has been appointed as the new second permanent secretary for the British Home Office, replacing Olly Robbins who is now in charge of the government’s new Brexit department.

  • Posted July 20, 2016
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  Civil servants develop algorithm capable of predicting flu outbreaks

  Civil servants in Australia have developed a new tool which can predict flu outbreaks up to eight weeks in advance. The algorithm, which was developed by officials at the Defence Science

  • Posted July 18, 2016
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  America’s troops to get 1.6% wage increase, but critics say the law calls for bigger rise

  A key panel in the U.S. upper house has voted in favour of a 1.6% pay rise for America’s troops. The Senate Armed Services Committee last week approved the proposals

  • Posted May 19, 2016
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  Ian Watt becomes board member at defence company BAE Systems Australia

  Australia’s former top civil servant Dr Ian Watt has been appointed non-executive chairman of the country’s largest defence company. BAE Systems Australia said the board post has been newly created

  • Posted April 29, 2016
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  Jonathan Slater moves from DG role in UK Cabinet Office to lead education department

  Jonathan Slater, a director-general within Britain’s Cabinet Office, will take charge of the education department next month, less than six months after being appointed to his current job. Slater was

  • Posted April 21, 2016
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  Senior officials from Canada and Japan agree to collaborate on counter-terrorism

  Canada and Japan have agreed to strengthen cooperation on counter-terrorism at a meeting involving high level officials this week. The agreement was made during so-called ‘2-plus-2’ security talks held in

  • Posted April 20, 2016
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  Jon Thompson, former permanent secretary of the UK Ministry of Defence, and now chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs: Exclusive Interview

  In any ranking of the developed world’s most challenging government jobs, digitising the UK’s tax collection and challenging its civil service’s class system would stand high in the premier league.

  • Posted April 7, 2016
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  Loosening Defence Equipment & Support pay controls has brought down salary bills, says Jon Thompson, UK’s outgoing MoD perm sec

  Liberating Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) from cross-civil service salary controls has cut the Ministry of Defence (MoD) agency’s staffing bill even as its workforce grows, outgoing MoD permanent secretary

  • Posted April 6, 2016
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  UK government departments to face further cuts, chancellor reveals in budget

  UK government departments will be asked to find another £3.5 billion (US$5bn) in savings by 2020, following a prolonged period of public spending cuts, chancellor George Osborne has announced. The

  • Posted March 17, 2016
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