COMPUTING:
ITS FUTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON DEFENCE

This is one in a series of Information Sheets, on topics that are likely to be of growing importance to defence. It has been produced by a panel comprising some of the UK’s leading experts (see The Computing Technology Panel)

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> The Computing Technology Panel

> Computing is already at the heart of defence

> Defence computing is driven by the civil market

> MOD is different from other organisations

> Putting the engineering into software engineering

> Interoperability and open standards

> Open source software

> Interfacing computers and humans

> Many little ones beat a big one

> Solid-state non-volatile storage

> Knowledge is the key to competitive advantage

> Quantum computing

> Future Benefits to MOD

> The MOD Response to Computing 

> Quantum Computers

> Contacts