one step forward, four steps back?

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It looks like the MOD has yet another poster child for The Trillion Dollar Bonfire. The latest Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts make sorry reading; for a number of reasons, not the least being the following damning statements:

“It is difficult to exaggerate the magnitude of the failure of the Joint Personnel Administration programme” and: ”The lack of clarity in the design in the system at the outset has led significant costs being incurred by the Department which ought to have been entirely avoidable.”

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