American defence and IT services giant Leidos will be paid more than $2.6 million a month over the next two years to continue supporting Defence’s data centre and network...
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A cloud-based enterprise student management system that was delivered to Defence 18 months ago has been abandoned after a review found it was “unable to achieve the capability outcomes...
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A $2 million review of Australia’s defence innovation system looks unlikely to ever be released after the former Coalition government sat on it for five months and the Department...
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Consulting giants Accenture and Deloitte and DXC Technology have been brought in to work on the final phase of Defence’s multi-billion-dollar enterprise resource planning (ERP) system project. The Department...
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Defence will pay KPMG more than $5 million a year to finish building and support a data modelling tool the consultants have already spent two-and-a-half-years developing under a contract...
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Australian Defence personnel and public servants are being told to remain vigilant after a Defence ICT contractor was embroiled in a ransomware attack on Monday. A 2018 dataset containing...
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An independent projects management office offering “laser-like” focus to troubled Defence projects will be established after 28 major projects were revealed to be running a combined $6.5bn over budget...
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The Defence industry was worth $8.88 billion to the Australian economy in financial year 2020-21, of which around 18 per cent was contributed directly through manufacturing. This is according...
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Recently I wrote an article for InnovationAus in their Innovation Papers series, titled ‘A Minister for ICT Capability would secure sovereign needs’. Since then, Defence has released its ICT...
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The number of external contractors working at the Department of Defence has grown by 55 per cent since the start of the pandemic, as the ongoing skills shortage takes...
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A planned joint state and Commonwealth defence industry taskforce will explore the unique skills challenges facing South Australia’s shipbuilding industry following the now-scrapped $90 billion deal with French firm...
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The Department of Defence has launched a new ICT strategy that recognises the criticality of technology for warfighting capability in an increasingly networked world. It has also used the...
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The Department of Defence is building a digital twin to allow commanders to test and rapidly re-check battle plans to elevate ADF command and control (C2). In an approach...
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The Department of Defence has acknowledged that the depth of cyber security expertise on existing federal government panels is lacking in a call for capabilities to support its information...