Future Firecrest Project
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Firecrest is already business critical to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). The FCO Strategy foresees a very significant need for improved communications as a key enabler of a more responsive, flexible FCO working in a more demanding world. Central to this will be the reliable, flexible and resilient infrastructure delivered by Future Firecrest.
The FCO utilises a global IT desktop, providing flexible structures that enable remote and mobile working at classified levels, streamlining business processes so people can work faster, more efficiently and more flexibly, and improving the connections between our IT systems and the rest of Whitehall. The delivery machinery for these objectives is the six Programmes in e-Diplomacy:
- Knowledge
- Prism
- i-Visas
- i-Con
- UKTI e-Business
- Infrastructure
Future Firecrest is the underpinning architecture for all of these programmes, and in the key component of the FCO's ICT infrastructure. It is central to e-Diplomacy, and therefore to the FCO Strategy.
