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Tag: DTA

DTA loses data sovereignty scheme duties

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Responsibility for the federal government’s troubled data sovereignty scheme has been stripped from the Digital Transformation Agency in a shakeup prompted by the creation of Australia’s new cybersecurity office....

DTA to renegotiate $782m SAP deal after 8x increase

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government is preparing to renegotiate its software licensing arrangement with German tech giant SAP, after one contract connected with the deal ballooned almost eight times its original...

Top bureaucrats mull NSW-like digital fund for Canberra

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A panel of Canberra’s most senior bureaucrats are weighing an investment vehicle modelled on the New South Wales government’s Digital Restart Fund to support federal digital projects outside of...

Ex-Service NSW boss to lead review of business register overhaul

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Former Service NSW chief executive Damon Rees will lead the federal government’s independent review of the modernising business registers program, which Treasury estimates will cost $1 billion more than...

DTA cautions public service ChatGPT use without policy

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The use of ChatGPT in the public service is not being encouraged by the Digital Transformation Agency, although it is supportive of experimentation using generative AI technologies to explore...

IBM contracts surge after whole of government deal

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
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...

DTA renews government-wide IBM deal for $725m

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government has inked a fresh deal with technology giant IBM at a cost of $725 million over the next five years after the former whole-of-government arrangement doubled...