Federal agencies are lining up outside help on frontier AI cyber risk, with a run of procurements for consultants and assessments a sign government is already moving to strengthen...
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The Albanese government has ordered an independent review of its controversial algorithm-based aged care assessment tool amid ongoing concerns about its accuracy and the extent of human oversight. Aged...
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The Australian Department of Defence has signed a $98 million contract with Danish defence software company Systematic for the first tranche of the Australian Army’s next-generation battle management system....
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Adobe will pocket another $13.2 million to keep myGov humming for nine more months while Services Australia decides whether to stick with the software for the government digital services...
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The controversial algorithm determining aged care supports could place older Australians in a “mental retardation” category as recently as last year, despite the term being phased out of practice...
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Federal agencies have been ordered to hunt down vulnerable legacy systems in their technology estates and set targets to reduce them, following the breach of a Medicare statistics portal...
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The agency established to deliver Australia nuclear-powered submarines has returned to Accenture for its managed services, handing the tech services giant another $14.5 million. The deal follows a $13.4...
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Anthony Albanese says an OpenAI agent went rogue and “infiltrated” a Medicare portal containing statistics on health expenditure data, accessing both public and non-public data. The incident, which happened...
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The Australian Tax Office has almost a decade of experience with machine learning and big data. It’s chief information officer is still cautious about deploying generative artificial intelligence. So...
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The Albanese government has been ordered to name the IT companies blacklisted on its new contractor underperformance register on a rolling basis, in a move that could expose the...
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The Bureau of Meteorology has returned to Palo Alto Networks for its firewall through a $15.8 million deal through reseller NTT, locking in the US solution for almost the...
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Western Australia’s government has launched a review of its procurement framework in a bid to cut red tape it says will hand more contracts to small businesses and better...
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The Bureau of Meteorology will upgrade from its ageing SAP enterprise software, with new contractors and eventually a systems integrator to deliver the modernisation project over at least three...
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The NSW government procurement lead was tepid on Wednesday about whether a systematised response is needed to new warnings that consultants are operating unchecked across the state government. The...