Tag: Digital Transformation Agency

DTA to lose 30+ staff despite digital push

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Digital Transformation Agency will lose more than 30 staff this financial year despite average staffing levels across the public sector increasing. The federal budget showed the Digital Transformation...

Use budget to rebuild inhouse APS tech skills

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government should scrap the controversial public sector staffing cap and use this week’s federal budget as an opportunity to begin the process of bringing tech skills back...

DTA readies for mammoth next stage of GovDXP

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Digital Transformation Agency is yet to finalise a contractor for the crucial next stage of the large-scale myGov update, three months after the work was slated to begin....

Troubled digital ID scheme gets another $250m

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government will pour a further $250 million into its digital identity program, more than doubling the amount spent on the troubled scheme since it was started more...

‘Vague’ digital ID framework is a problem

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The framework governing the federal government’s $200 million digital identity program is “very vague” and “counter-intuitive” and more design flaws will likely be found, according to the security researcher...

Another $2m spent on COVIDSafe app

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The amount of government money provided to outside companies for development and maintenance work on the COVIDSafe contact tracing app has nearly doubled to $5 million, with new contracts...

More DTA contracts for BCG and KPMG

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Digital Transformation Agency has doubled the value of a contract with the Boston Consulting Group for “funding options analysis”, although the six-month duration of the contract period remains...

DTA releases COVIDSafe encryption details

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Digital Transformation Agency has finally released details of the encryption process behind its COVIDSafe contact tracing app, but no further information on the server used to store the...

Deloitte contract with DTA triples to $28.1m

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Consulting giant Deloitte has landed a $5 million pay rise from the Digital Transformation Agency for its work on a new social network-inspired myGov platform, while its rival KPMG...