US defence giant Lockheed Martin has fought off Airbus, Boeing and Optus to secure a lucrative contract to deliver Australia’s first “sovereign-controlled” military satellite communication constellation. The Department of...
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The Department of Defence can’t attract and retain enough cybersecurity workers, and has turned to nurses and miners to build out its teams as it faces twin “existential” challenges...
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The Department of Defence is withholding a review of Australia’s defence innovation system that cost $2.2 million from the Albanese government and the general public, despite its findings being...
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There is no doubt the world has entered a more complex and potentially dangerous era. And according to Sarah Pavillard, that means commercial researchers and tech innovators will increasingly...
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Defence will pay Accenture more than $14 million over the next year to stand up a cloud capability that will provide the guardrails for multi-vendor hosting, as the department...
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A government review of Australia’s defence innovation system has been released more than a year after it was completed, but heavy redactions based on public interest claims have kept...
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The rollout of a $130 million Accenture-built security vetting system has faced “substantial challenges”, with some staff redeployed to manually process clearances to meet the growing backlog. The ongoing...
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American defence and IT services giant Leidos will be paid more than $2.6 million a week 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...