At rollout, projected performance was far in excess of the requirement, with a 225 kn maximum speed, 10000 feet ceiling, 130 mile range with 1000 pound payload, and hover out of ground effect with 2428 pound payload.
While IT still has to send an engineer to every desk, migrations and other large IT rollout projects will remain complex, consume significantly more time and resource than required, and risk failure.
As with any major government rollout, the project is dogged by bureaucracy and industry backlash, but is nonetheless moving forward.
The rollout pilot project, called "Using Information and Communications Technology as an Enabler for Health, Shelter, and Education infrastructures in Haiti," is focusing first on getting a number of local permanent hospitals and IDP camps using primarily donated equipment such as Redline, Airaya, and Cisco wireless communications gear.
They noted that gradual rollout, careful project management and ongoing improvements are critical to success.
Today marks the start of the national rollout of the project, and for the next two weeks schools across the UK can apply to take part.
Ms Truss defended the speed of the rollout of the project, saying it would be available to over 95% of the UK by 2017.
One thing is for sure, even if this is the one of the last special project rollouts with U2, this is only the beginning of Apple dabbling with VR.
Nick: (Laughing) If you ask my 16-year-old son he might give you a different answer, but my talent is supporting companies that are either merging with another company, out-sourcing a particular task abroad or trying to manage global project rollouts, in how to avoid costly conflicts which erode budgets and destroy deadlines.
Our funding award of £207,000 from the UK's Technology Strategy Board allows us to accelerate the rollout of the CARES project, and partner with a hospital to link up vital clinical information flow.
