While struggling to find out if this Defence Information Infrastructure (DII)/Future was due to connect to something useful, like any of the Air Mission Planning Aids, this FT.com article was waved at me today.
The Ministry of Defence is taking on average nearly four years to procure each large project under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), potentially incurring additional expense for the taxpayer, according to the government's spending watchdog. The National Audit Office examined eight PFI case studies and found they took an average of 37 months to procure, compared with the PFI average across government of 34 months. Larger PFI projects took the MoD an average of 45 months to procure.
If the first DII contract was placed in May/Jun 2005, it looks like this monolith will pass the NAO average next March and my Home Base is expecting it to arrive in May 09. Oh well!