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In 1999 ISS acquired Abilis, the second largest European provider of cleaning and specialised services, in a DKK 3.6 billion acquisition, the Group’s largest ever. Abilis had about 50,000 employees and annual revenues of 5.2 billion DKK in 1998. The total number of employees in the Group reached 200,000 in 1999, doubling in just 10 years.
ISS was created from the former Defence Communication Services Agency (DCSA) on 1 April 2007. [3] The organisation was spread across a number of sites, but in 2010 a £690 million programme was announced to unite ISS at MoD Corsham, Witshire in a modern office complex with 1,874 workspaces. [4]
From 1998, Corsham was the headquarters of the newly created Defence Communication Services Agency, taking over from the Navy, Army and RAF which had dealt with their own communications. The site was then sometimes called DCSA Corsham. [11] In 2007 the DCSA was subsumed into Information Systems & Services (ISS) within Defence Equipment and ...
Although the site ceased to be an RAF station in December 2007, it was retained by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) as a communications station. [3] The site was then known as ISS Boddington, having initially been operated by the Defence Communication Services Agency (DCSA) then Information Systems and Services (ISS), and since 2019 Defence Digital transitioning to the name MOD Boddington.
The UK has two free emergency numbers: the traditional 999, which is still widely used, and the EU standard 112. Both 999 and 112 are used to contact all emergency services: Police, Fire Service, Ambulance Service and Coastguard. (Standard advice for Mountain Rescue or Cave Rescue is to ask the emergency operator for the police, who oversee the ...
RAF Oakhanger was the home of No. 1001 Signal Unit, [4] responsible for supporting satellite communications services for the British Armed Forces worldwide. The unit was made up of four sub-units: Space Operations, Ground Operations, Telemetry and Control, and Support; with subordinate detachments based at RAF Rudloe Manor, RAF Colerne and RAF Defford.
The ICE Cubes Service stems from a commercial agreement between Space Applications Services and the European Space Agency (ESA). [4] The ICE Cubes Facility (ICF) is the first European commercial research facility in the ISS. [3] [4] It was installed in June 2018 and it houses modular experiments on different disciplines. Researchers have ...
The Columbus External Payload Facility (Columbus-EPF) is a component of the Columbus module on the International Space Station. It consists of two identical L-shaped consoles attached to the starboard cone of Columbus in the zenith (top) and nadir (bottom) positions, each supporting two platforms for external payloads or payload facilities.