Government contractor Capita uses AI to analyse and summarise medical documents to ensure a candidate is suitable to enlist. It comes as the Army is suffering from a staffing crisis.
Outsourcing giant Capita, which is in charge of recruitment for the Army, said a staffing crisis in the military could in part be dealt with by lowering the strict standards for entry.
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Who remembers that Army recruitment calamity? Not the salty sea dogs running the naval forces
Paul Kunert Fri 18 Dec 2020 // 16:20 UTC Share
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Weeks after the British Army renewed a contract that retained Capita at the heart of its recruitment services, the oft-criticised outsourcing biz has snaffled a £1bn deal to provide training services for the Royal Navy and Marines.
In a statement to the London Stock Exchange today, Capita said the 12-year agreement will see the company endeavour to modernise the Navy s shore-based training in 16 sites across the UK as the lead partner in a consortium, Fisher Training, which bid for the work.