Lack of IT standards hampering UK war effort

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Proprietary software making it harder to exploit reconnaisance data in Afghanistan

Proprietary software is making intelligence data harder to gather in Afghanistan The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has warned that differing US suppliers' proprietary software standards are hampering...

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