8 October 2009 – VEGA Consulting Services Ltd (VEGA), a Finmeccanica company, is proposing the adoption of a UK Information Sharing Strategy, as part of its sponsorship of the RUSI/Intellect Cyber Security Conference.
The conference, in Whitehall from 21-22 October, aims to help senior policy makers, companies with an interest in the sector, and other stakeholders, [...]

14 April 2009 – VEGA Consulting Services Ltd (VEGA), a Finmeccanica company, is to hold a specialist seminar at this year’s GC Live event entitled “Securing Transformation across Government”.
GC Live is a conference and exhibition for UK public sector ICT. Running over two days (9-10 June) and split into two streams (‘The Public Sector Talks’ [...]

VEGA re-qualifies for two MOD ICS Catalogue framework agreements
24 March 2009 – VEGA Consulting Services Ltd (VEGA), a Finmeccanica company, has successfully re-qualified for the IS Security Support and the IS Communication Support and Services framework agreements of the UK Ministry of Defence Information Communications Services (MOD ICS) Catalogue.
The MOD ICS catalogue allows the MOD [...]

The Disposal Service Authority (DSA) e-commerce website, www.edisposals.com, which VEGA has provided expert security support to for nearly seven years, has won the ‘Shared Services’ category at the 2008 e-Government National Awards.
The award was presented by Her Majesty’s Government Chief Information Officer, John Suffolk, at the awards dinner in the City of London on 20 [...]

Author: Paul Newman, Security Consultant, VEGA
“Lost data official to be charged”… “MI6 photos ’sold on auction site’”… “Discs loss ‘entirely avoidable’”… “Fresh benefit data lapse admitted”… “Firm ‘broke rules’ over data loss”… “More firms ‘admit disc failings’”…
It seems that rarely a month goes past without the all too familiar headlines, such as those above, dominating [...]

18 September 2008 – John Auburn, VEGA’s Aerospace Business Development Director and Chairman of UKspace, has called upon the UK Government to “reinstate a robust national Space programme” in order to “guarantee national security in an increasingly complex international environment”.
His comments follow the publication of the Space Secures Prosperity report by UKspace, the trade association [...]

18 September 2008 – VEGA, a Finmeccanica company, has appointed Clive Bowles, an expert in financial services consulting, to head up its evolving consulting area focused on the finance industry.
Clive founded IDOM Consulting (which was sold to Misys in 2004), and has worked at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, as well as several international investment and retail [...]

11 August 2008 – VEGA, a Finmeccanica company, has won a contract to provide Enterprise Architecture services to the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) Future Core Network (FCN) programme.
The FCN programme team is responsible for managing the procurement options and technological requirements to ensure that FCN successfully replaces the capability of the four separate communication [...]

6 August 2008 – VEGA, a Finmeccanica company, has secured a three-year contract from Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) to continue supporting three synthetic training systems based at the Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering (DCAE).
Under the terms of the £585k contract, VEGA will continue to provide ongoing maintenance and support for the Aircraft Propulsions Systems [...]

25 July 2008 – VEGA Group PLC (VEGA), the specialist professional services company, has been awarded a £1.6m contract extension to continue providing specialist support to Government Connect.
Government Connect is the strategic partnership between central government departments and the local government community that aims to build a secure network for English and Welsh local authorities [...]