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| Sep 27, 2021 | Accenture gets another $11m for My Health Record enhancements | Accenture has been handed $11 million to further enhance the My Health Record system, bringing its long-standing national infrastructure operator (NIO) deal to $641 million.
The Australian Digital Health Agency revealed the nine-month contr... |
| Aug 17, 2021 | DTA abandons open source govt design system | The Digital Transformation Agency has abruptly “decommissioned” the government’s open source design system, threatening the future stability of more than 100 sites and services that currently use the code library.
The government’s peak IT a... |
| Jun 9, 2021 | ASG : scores $5M for petroleum title body's system overhaul | This article was originally written by Sasha Karen and published 8/06/2021 by www.arnnet.com.au.
ASG Group has scored a $5.3 million contract with the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources' National Offshore Petroleum Titles... |
| Aug 31, 2020 | Defence explores blockchain to reduce IT supply chain risks | The Department of Defence is planning to build a proof-of-concept that will allow it to track the provenance of IT products using blockchain technology.
The department’s chief information office group expects to kick off the “discovery proj... |
| Aug 28, 2020 | Microsoft Outlook bug irks 20,000 ATO staff | The Australian Taxation Office is urgently trying to fix a Microsoft Office 365 bug that has prevented its 20,000 staff from easily forwarding meeting invites to one another for three months.
The issue came to light earlier this week, when ... |
| Aug 19, 2020 | Home Affairs shifts national real-time intelligence system to Azure cloud | The Department of Home Affairs has shifted Australia’s new national criminal intelligence system (NCIS) off its in-house infrastructure after a “change in technical direction”.
iTnews can reveal that the long-awaited national system, which ... |
| Aug 11, 2020 | Government’s digital procurement platform hits $2 billion milestone — with SMEs taking home 75% | Small Business Minister Stuart Robert. Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas.
More than $2.3 billion in digital and information and communications technology (ICT) services contracts have been awarded through the Digital Transformation Agency’s onl... |
| Jul 27, 2020 | Finance dept calls in SAP expertise ahead of GovERP system build | The Department of Finance is preparing to ramp up work on the federal government’s new common ERP system, with as many as 18 SAP technical specialists soon to be called in.
The department put out the call for the contractors last week after... |
| Jun 10, 2020 | DTA moves to review broken government IT funding model | The Digital Transformation Agency will formally review the federal government’s outdated IT funding model in a bid to better support agile delivery approaches and common, reusable platforms.
Long-held issues with the federal budget approval... |
| Jun 3, 2020 | AEC in hiring spree ahead of core systems rebuild | The Australian Electoral Commission has kicked off a hiring spree for digital talent ahead of its once in a generation overhaul of the infrastructure supporting the country's 30-year-old election systems.
The agency posted 17 separate listi... |
| Jun 2, 2020 | DTA wraps up digital ID pilot on myGov | The Digital Transformation Agency has completed a month-long pilot of the federal government’s new digital identity credential on the myGov online services portal.
The pilot, which came to an end last week, saw a small group of users authen... |
| Jun 2, 2020 | Son-of-myGov platform build price climbs again | A multi-million dollar contract with Deloitte for the government’s new Facebook-inspired digital service platform has climbed for the second time in less than a month after briefly disappearing from view last week.
The value of the seven-mo... |
| May 19, 2020 | Deloitte's son-of-myGov platform price doubles to $20m | The cost of the federal government’s new Facebook-inspired digital service platform has climbed to almost $20 million after the contract for the beta build more than doubled in value.
The seven-month deal with Deloitte to further develop th... |
| May 11, 2020 | Deloitte collect $9.5m for stage one of myGov rebuild | Deloitte has scored a $9.5 million deal with the Digital Transformation Agency to build out the first stage of the Facebook-inspired digital services platform that is tipped to replace myGov.
The big four consultancy was handed the seven-mo... |
| May 4, 2020 | McKinsey tapped for myGov upgrade business case | The federal government has tapped upmarket wonk shop McKinsey to develop the business case for the Facebook-like digital services platform that is ultimately expected to replace myGov.
The Digital Transformation Agency handed the strategy c... |
| Mar 16, 2020 | myGov set for Facebook-like overhaul | A Facebook-like digital services platform that promises to give citizens a single view of their interactions with the federal government will be developed for Services Australia.
The new platform is expected to ultimately replace the govern... |
| Jan 20, 2020 | DTA tries to shake off Australia's chequered digital ID past | With the first real test for Australia’s Govpass digital identity scheme just around the corner, the government agency in charge has turned its attention to marketing the $200 million-plus project.
The Digital Transformation Agency is appea... |
| Aug 13, 2019 | DTA revives govt-wide email, desktop cloud project | The Digital Transformation Agency has revived plans to introduce a whole-of-government email and desktop productivity service known as GovDesk, five years after the concept was first proposed.
In a move that will likely result in a shakeup ... |
| May 16, 2019 | Australian Cyber Security Centre stands up government flying squad | The Australian Cyber Security Centre is beefing up its newly established government cyber security flying squad to hasten the pace of fortifying the Commonwealth’s cyber posture.
Armed with an undisclosed amount of funding to uplift federal... |
| Mar 14, 2019 | AFP eyes protected Microsoft cloud | The Australian Federal Police has joined a growing group of federal government agencies considering Microsoft’s protected-level public cloud service.
The peak law enforcement agency last week revealed plans for the development of an Office ... |
| Jan 24, 2019 | Fed's shared services successor in protected cloud build | One of the successors to the federal government’s former Shared Services Centre is set to build a protected-level cloud environment for securely sharing sensitive documents between agencies.
The Department of Jobs and Small Business (DJSB) ... |
| Jan 10, 2019 | Revised govt-wide digital records play gets green light | A revised federal government plan to source multiple digital records management solutions instead of a single government-wide platform has been endorsed by industry and government representatives.
After receiving feedback on its sourcing st... |
| Jan 8, 2019 | Aussie electoral systems get 24x7 monitoring for 2019 election | Australia’s electoral systems will be actively monitored around the clock by a new security operations centre during the upcoming federal election.
The Australian Electoral Commission has put out the call for vendors capable of providing “s... |
| Dec 11, 2018 | DFAT probes protected Microsoft cloud | The first major federal government agency is set to begin testing Microsoft’s protected-level public cloud service.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is progressing a program of work that will see it adopt secure cloud services in... |
| Jul 20, 2018 | ATO to ditch AUSkey for myGovID | The Australian Taxation Office will ditch its AUSkey authentication solution in favour of the federal government’s new myGovID digital identity credential.
The single authentication credential, which businesses have used for the last 8 year... |
| Dec 15, 2017 | ATO works to get rid of unsupported Microsoft systems | The Australian Taxation Office is preparing to migrate the last of its applications from the out-of-support Windows Server 2003.
The migration will see the ATO transition applications to Windows Server 2012 before a future jump to Server 20... |
| Aug 8, 2017 | The AEC is building an app for enrolment, polling info | The Australian Electoral Commission is hoping that when it next comes time to vote, citizens will have no difficulty finding a polling station or working out exactly how long they will be waiting.
The agency is preparing to develop two mobi... |
| Aug 4, 2017 | Finance wants to automate its shared services hub | The Department of Finance will begin rolling out robotic process automation in its new shared services hub later this year to drive down the cost of delivering corporate services.
The service delivery office (SDO) was created when the core ... |
| Jul 7, 2017 | AEC to review resilience of electoral systems | The Australian Electoral Commission is taking no chances with the resilience of its outdated IT systems following speculation that foreign cyber attackers influenced the outcome of last year’s US election.
The agency is preparing to examine... |
| Jun 15, 2017 | Centrelink's cashless card scheme will use software to block products | An expanded trial of the federal government’s controversial cashless welfare card later this year will be accompanied by software that automatically blocks Centrelink recipients’ access to restricted products at the point of sale.
The schem... |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Federal government’s Digital Marketplace expands into new service fields | The federal government’s Digital Marketplace is expanding to take on more service fields. Five new categories of services were added this week, building on the existing areas of software, design, change, strategy and delivery.
The new field... |
| 52 smart city projects to receive government backing | The Australian Government has released details of all 52 projects funded under the first round of its $50 million Smart Cities and Smart Suburbs program.
The list of 52 projects that will receive total funding of $28.5 million includes the ... |