Author: Joseph Brookes

Science and Technology Aust CEO Misha Schubert steps down

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High profile Science and Technology Australia (STA) chief executive Misha Schubert has resigned from the STEM sector professional association to take up another CEO role elsewhere from February next year....

Salesforce met with Robert ahead of $100m NDIA tender

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Salesforce held multiple meetings with former Government Services and NDIS minister Stuart Robert and Synergy 360, the controversial consulting firm linked to him in the lead up to a...

Salesforce is charging govt for licences no one uses

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Salesforce is charging Australia’s disability insurance agency for user licences that the agency does not use, under contract costs that have quadrupled to more than $100 million and has...

IBM lands another $44m for Defence ERP rollout

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The cost of Defence’s mammoth upgrade of backend systems is nudging $600 million, after lead systems integrator IBM landed another lucrative contract for platform services last month. Big Blue...

Govt puts Microsoft in AI ‘driver’s seat’ ahead of locals

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The Prime Minister’s announcement that he was handing Microsoft a government trial of its generative artificial intelligence just hours before consultations with local industry on the technology has triggered...

Critical infrastructure and the resilience tightrope

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The Australian innovation ecosystem demands a more precise definition of resilience for critical infrastructure that moves beyond cataloguing vulnerabilities, and leaders must encourage bold strides to build it. The...

Digital ID’s biggest challenge may be explaining how it works

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Australians are struggling to understand the “concept” of the upcoming national Digital ID system, government commissioned research has found, confirming a key concern about the roll out of the...

National rail procurement plan leaves the station

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The Albanese government has committed to adopting a nationally coordinated approach to rail procurement, including local content, after the sector warned disjointed state policies had cost governments billions. On...