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Radiocoms awarded MoD PMR Service contract

  • Contract covers managed services including dedicated engineering, product technology updates and consultancy.
  • Award confirms Radiocoms expertise in defence sector.

Radiocoms Systems Limited (Radiocoms) has signed a five year contract with the Ministry of Defence. The award, won through a competitive tender, signifies another significant increase in business for Radiocoms.

The contract focuses on modernising both radio hardware and infrastructure for the MoD. Working with Strategic Radio services, part of the Strategic Systems team within Defence Digital Radiocoms dedicated team will apply their operational and technical understanding to provide:

  • Independent, requirement analysis and management
  • Acceptance planning, product deployment and training
  • An effective and Value For Money route to procurement

 Mark Blythe, Managing Director, “We are delighted to have been selected to work with the MoD on this contract. Radiocoms has an experienced team which understand the complex requirements of the many different MoD requirements. Having worked with the MoD for over fifteen years, we look forward to developing this relationship even further in the coming years.”

Paul JenkinsMoD Senior Account Manager, “As proud supporters of the British Armed Forces this contract award marks a significant step up for Radiocoms in its support services and delivery to the MoD. A key aspect of this service requirement was to remain technology neutral, and this is something that we pride ourselves on.”

Radio Team Lead, MoD, “Radiocoms have supported Defence on a number of overseas deployed capabilities and have built a strong reputation for delivering a technology neutral (full market) and  well supported PMR product base, so I look forward to the team now having the opportunity to support the wider defence requirement both in the UK and overseas.”

 

MOD selects FotoWare for digital asset management of new public photo archive

The MOD has worked with UK/Norwegian software provider FotoWare to launch a new website with a library of over 5,000 videos and 10,000 images available for the public to access.

Following improvements to its former site, which was customised by a third party company, the MOD needed a new site that retained all of the customised features, but also ensured compliance with the strict requirements laid out by the UK Government for all of its websites.

FotoWare had worked on a similar website for the Australian Government’s Department of Defence, where a custom front end was developed using the FotoWare solution and API (Application Programming Interface). That same front end was what the UK’s MOD wanted for its own new public-facing site, so FotoWare was employed to customise it.

FotoWare implemented a solution to take the new site forward, adding more keyboard controls and a cookie banner, which is a requirement of the UK Government for all of its websites, to ensure they are fully WCAG compliant.

Behind the scenes, FotoWare provides controls for the website including a resizable image slider and a powerful advanced search. For users searching for Red Arrow images, for example, the FotoWare solution makes it easier for the general public and news agencies to find exactly what they were looking for.

FotoWare also provided an extra layer of download security for the new sites including adding a CAPTCHA tool for download of files.

FotoWare has ensured that the digital asset managers and internal teams at the MOD can create albums, with specific metadata and tags, to control what appears on the news packages screen. So, all images with the same news story tags, are stored in one album for the media to view and download.

“The new MOD site is a nice window for members of the public to see all of the amazing defence imagery that is available. This includes all imagery from the armed forces, explains Panay Triantafillides, Defence Imagery Editor & Digital Asset Manager, Ministry of Defence.

To see the new MOD image website, visit: https://www.defenceimagery.mod.uk/

Image source: https://www.defenceimagery.mod.uk/Home/Search?Query=SCA-Official-20211008-784-002.jpg&Type=Filename