The Home Office has signed Leidos Innovations on a £30 million contract to provide a managed service for its Agile Data Retention and Disclosure Service (ARDS).
The service involves monitoring and anticipating changes in telecommunications activity, and makes a significant contribution to the department’s counter-terrorism activities.
It sits within the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism and aligns with the work of the National Communications Data Service in providing security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies with communications data within the legal framework.
This can be used to develop intelligence and build the evidence for prosecutions, against both terrorists and organised criminals.