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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:37:25 GMT</pubDate>  
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					<title>IBM signs three-year strategic transformation services agreement with UK Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA)</title>
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					IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced a three-year extension to an existing 10-year agreement to help DVLA transform the way in which it delivers services to customers.
					
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					<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:37:25 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Ministry of Defence and IBM enter 5-Year, £23 Million Agreement to manage UK Air Surveillance </title>
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					IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Defence Equipment and Support, a department of the Ministry of Defence, today announced a five-year strategic agreement for IBM to manage the UK Air Surveillance Command &amp; Control System (UCCS).
					
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					<category>Government</category>
					<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:09:01 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Scottish Councils transform major incident handling with IBM and Frontworks </title>
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					IBM (NYSE:IBM) and IBM Business Partner Frontworks, a Scottish-based software company, today announced the deployment of an innovative web-based management application for Emergency Rest Centres (ERCs) across all 32 local authorities in Scotland. It provides a vital information stream for local authorities and the police service to enable them to assist in reuniting those affected with their loved ones, providing peace of mind and alleviating anxiety.
					
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					<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:18:57 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>UK Identity and Passport Service and IBM sign 7-year National Biometric Identity Service (NBIS) contract.</title>
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					IBM (NYSE:IBM) and the Identity and Passport Service (IPS), an executive agency of the UK Home Office, have signed a seven-year agreement for IBM to provide a core element of the Government’s plans to upgrade to biometric passports and enhance the security of the UK border.  IBM will also provide a replacement for the UK Border Agency&#39;s (UKBA) Immigration and Asylum Fingerprint System (IAFS) which holds biometrics collected from visa applicants. 
					
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					<category>Government</category>
					<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:13:16 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>IBM Helps Defra Make Life Easier For Farmers</title>
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					IBM has made further enhancements to Defra’s Whole Farm Approach website, designed to reduce the time farmers spend filling in forms, improve the accuracy of returns and provide easy access to industry best practices. 
					
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					<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:33:47 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>The Planning Portal and IBM extend successful six-year relationship with new three-year agreement.</title>
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					IBM and the Planning Portal, part of the Department for Communities and Local Government and responsible for the Government’s gateway to planning applications and policy information throughout England and Wales, today announced a three-year strategic agreement for IBM to upgrade and host the Planning Portal website. 
					
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					<category>Government</category>
					<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:07:33 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>IBM system in Warsaw University is the most energy efficient supercomputer in the world</title>
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					The Green 500 report (www.green500.org) announced yesterday found that the most energy efficient supercomputer in the world is the IBM system installed in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM), at the University of Warsaw. Nautilus is a development system for hybrid computer architectures - runs on Linux and it is based on QS22 Blade servers. It produces more than 536 Mflops (millions of floating point operations per second) per one watt.  Nautilus has been ranked  221 in the latest Top500 list (www.top500.org) of supercomputers, which was announced earlier this week.
					
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					<category>Government</category>
					<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 09:32:17 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>IBM Data Governance Council Leads XBRL Initiative to Create New Reporting Standards for Risk Measurement</title>
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					In a move to provide businesses worldwide with consistent tools for measuring aggregate risk in the financial world and provide a real-time view of market exposure, the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Data Governance Council is seeking input from banks and financial institutions, corporations, vendors and regulators to create a standards-based approach to risk reporting.
					
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					<category>Government</category>
					<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:22:39 GMT</pubDate>
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