Silicon Roundabout start-up Huddle will provide the Government with cloud-based software as a service (SaaS)It becomes one of the world's first providers of cloud-based collaboration software for classified documents.

The company, partnering in this project with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Services (FCO Services), is to provide its SaaS to allow government departments to share projects and work on documents between various departmental, something that was only previously possible by email.