Author: Justin Hendry

IBM contracts surge after whole of government deal

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Canberra’s largest government agencies have stuck multi-year deals with IBM worth more than $350 million following the arrival of the renegotiated whole-of-government agreement earlier this month. The Department of...

Cyber crises to get disaster status in WA

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Significant cyber-attacks could soon join fires, floods and tsunamis on the list of recognised disasters in Western Australia, with the state government now working to develop a specific emergency...

$16bn GDP boost expected from second AWS cloud region

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Amazon Web Services has launched its second Australian cloud infrastructure region more than a decade after its first, which is expected to generate an estimated $16 billion lift to...

Industry dept told to report weekly on MMI grant progress

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Industry minister Ed Husic has asked his department to report weekly on the progress it has made signing off grants that were awarded through the former Morrison government’s $1.3...

CRC grants to target reconstruction fund priorities

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The Albanese government will use the next round of cooperative research centre project grants to support National Reconstruction Fund priority areas, as it continues work to create the $15 billion...

Electric planes funded in $44m CRC grants round

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A project to convert turboprop-powered aircraft to electric propulsion is one of 19 projects to share in $44 million worth of grants through the latest round of the federal...

SEA Electric receives $1bn order for electric utes

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Australian electric truck pioneer SEA Electric has partnered with US systems integrator MEVCO to supply thousands of electrified Toyota utes to the mining sector in a deal worth almost...