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| Oct 31, 2024 | Palantir stock hit by major insider trading activity | The AI boom of the last two years is responsible for some of the biggest stock market winners we’ve seen since the turn of the decade. Only time will tell if these changes can stabilize into reliable streams of revenue — but there’s little ... |
| Jul 18, 2023 | Australian government to vet 5G, 6G security in new lab | The government is moving ahead with a lab that will be used to check the interoperability and security of 5G equipment and protocols, as well as emerging 6G technology.
The ‘Secure G’ Connectivity Test Lab was first announced in the digital... |
| Jul 3, 2023 | Gov mobile audit to cover 60,000km of roads at minimum | The government’s forthcoming national mobile signal audit will cover a bare minimum of 75 towns and 60,000km of roads, with a “stretch target” of an additional 200,000km of roads.
A request for tender (RFT), released late Friday, details th... |
| Jun 27, 2023 | Kyndryl lands role in aged care IT transformation | Kyndryl will be paid $13.2 million to bring Salesforce and Siebel skills to a rebuild of the aged care service provider management system run by the federal Health department.
The services provider will also build some other unspecified “IC... |
| May 19, 2023 | ATO extends IT megadeals with DXC and Leidos by $440m | The Australian Taxation Office has extended two of its largest IT outsourcing deals by almost $440 million, buying extra time to potentially transition off them.
Its massive Centralised Computing services agreement, run by DXC, has a $332.7... |
| May 18, 2023 | Defence to boost biometric collection capability | Defence is looking to boost its biometric capability with a fleet of handheld devices for collecting and verifying fingerprints, facial images and “other [unspecified] biometric data.”
Prospective suppliers to a request for proposal will de... |
| May 1, 2023 | Australian Human Rights Commission wants an IT upgrade | The Australian Human Rights Commission is hoping for a major upgrade of its IT systems, after “minimal investment” in technology over the past five-to-10 years.
The commission has called in outside help to audit and map its IT environment a... |
| Apr 19, 2023 | CSIRO plans vast data hub for satellite data sharing | A data hub that’s served 20 petabytes of Earth observation data to Australasian users is set for an upgrade.
The Copernicus Australasia regional data hub provides free access to data collected by the satellites of the European Union’s Coper... |
| Apr 4, 2023 | DTA kicks off SAP renegotiation | The Digital Transformation Agency has begun renegotiating one of the largest commonwealth tech deals with enterprise resource planning giant SAP.
An agency spokesperson confirmed to iTnews that "pre-negotiation activities with SAP have... |
| Mar 30, 2023 | Finance looks to outsource part of its hybrid cloud | The Department of Finance is looking to outsource part of the management of its hybrid cloud environment.
In a tender published last week, the department said it has been implementing a mix of on-premises services and Azure Protected cloud-... |
| Mar 29, 2023 | Gov kicks off mobile audit process | The federal government is getting ready to fit out Australia Post vehicles to help audit the nation’s mobile telecommunications services.
The vehicles are to be fitted with mobile signal measurement technology, which will collect data as th... |
| Mar 15, 2023 | Gov rebuilds aged care provider system on Salesforce | The Department of Health and Aged Care has revealed that a new aged care service provider management system is being built on Salesforce.
The government provider management system (GPMS) is intended to replace the current 20-year old nation... |
| Feb 16, 2023 | Defence wants to know if a space SDN will fly | Defence is asking the satcom sector to offer solutions for a software-defined network (SDN) in space.
In a request for information, Defence said it wants a “converged network in space, drawing on multiple security domains to disseminate Def... |
| Feb 7, 2023 | ASD hub to handle REDSPICE 'innovation surge' | The Australian Signals Directorate is set to outsource much of the resourcing of a "service delivery hub" that will prepare enterprise services and internal functions for the $10 billion REDSPICE cyber security program.
The agency... |
| Feb 6, 2023 | Defence Housing Australia plans network upgrade | Defence Housing Australia is planning to upgrade of its wide area network (WAN) using hardware and software made by Aruba Networks.
In a tender, Defence Housing Australia (DHA) explained that its current WAN is nearing end-of-life.
iTnews h... |
| Jan 23, 2023 | Defence seeks quantum comms research | The Department of Defence is looking for researchers to work on quantum communication technologies.
In a tender published earlier this month, the department said it’s seeking proposals from “industry, academia and government-funded organisa... |
| Jan 17, 2023 | Auditor wants quicker data exchange with agencies | The Australian National Audit Office is gauging private sector interest in providing a B2B gateway the office would use to receive data from government agencies.
The exchange portal will collect the data ANAO uses to decide whether to audit... |
| Jan 11, 2023 | AEC to replace payroll system for temporary election workforce | The Australian Electoral Commission is set to replace the payroll system it uses to compensate the more than 100,000 temporary workers employed during federal elections.
The payroll system replacement is part of a broader - and ongoing - on... |
| Jan 4, 2023 | Australia to autonomously collect data in Southern Ocean | Australia is set to trial an uncrewed surface vessel (USV) in the Southern Ocean to collect data such as on local conditions “in real-time or near real-time”.
The government, through The Australian Antarctic Division, has gone to tender for... |
| Dec 7, 2022 | Finance seeks GovCMS security provider | The Department of Finance has issued a tender to supply web applications and API protection services to whole-of-government content management system GovCMS.
The AWS-hosted, Drupal-based platform manages more than 370 website sites for agen... |
| Nov 28, 2022 | Airservices in the market for high-level consulting | Airservices Australia is looking for a consultant to oversee its huge tech work program.
The agency last month went to market for one part of its refresh, the replacement of its Melbourne and Brisbane technical operations centres with a sin... |
| Nov 10, 2022 | ABC getting ready to retire its PABXs | The ABC has embarked on a project to replace its aging PABXs with onsite or cloud-based voice services that can integrate with its organisation-wide use of Microsoft Teams.
While the broadcaster declined to disclose to iTnews the budget for... |
| Nov 8, 2022 | Defence delays part of large maritime comms upgrade | Two key elements of the Department of Defence’s mammoth maritime communications upgrade project have been delayed.
Project SEA1442 Phase 5 has two “scope elements”: enhancements to satellite communications; and aggregation and encryption, a... |
| Nov 8, 2022 | CSIRO seeks $14.5 million Bracewell supercomputer replacement | CSIRO has launched a $14.5 million tender for a supercomputer to replace its five-year-old Bracewell machine.
As well as traditional HPC workloads, the Advanced Scientific Accelerator Cluster (ASAC) will have to be able to handle machine le... |
| Oct 31, 2022 | Airservices Australia launches major service management system upgrade project | Airservices Australia is embarking on a rebuild that will retire the systems now underpinning its technical operations centres (TOCs), creating a single, integrated and virtualised service management environment.
In a tender published late ... |
| Oct 12, 2022 | Geoscience Australia plans ground station move | Geoscience Australia is planning the relocation of its Landsat ground station facility in Alice Springs.
The multi-year project will begin with a contractor identifying the new site and planning the build, according to a tender published ye... |
| Sep 14, 2022 | ATO flags imminent midrange, hyperconverged outsourcing tenders | The Australian Taxation Office will soon go to tender for midrange and data centre services, as well as separate hyperconverged infrastructure services, under a continuation of its IT strategic sourcing program.
The program was described by... |
| Aug 11, 2022 | BOM buys $49m disaster recovery HPC system from HPE | The Bureau of Meteorology has bought a disaster recovery high performance computing (HPC) system to improve the resilience of the supercomputer used to predict Australia’s weather events.
HPE will supply the DR HPC system under a three-year... |
| Aug 5, 2022 | Defence, DEWR drop $160m on Microsoft software, Azure | Two federal government departments have spent more than $160 million on Microsoft software and cloud services, in one of the costliest licensing refreshes in recent years.
The Department of Defence and the Department of Employment and Workp... |
| Aug 1, 2022 | Leidos scores $52m to enhance Defence's intelligence data interface | The Department of Defence will pay Leidos just shy of $52 million to enhance its new Wagardi mission system by delivering further intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) data integration improvements.
Last month, the department ... |
| Jul 27, 2022 | Cost blowout pushes Australia's business register overhaul to $1.5bn | The former federal government has been accused of hiding a $1 billion blowout in its massive consolidation of business registers, with costs now projected to come in at $1.5 billion.
Newly-appointed financial services minister Stephen Jones... |
| Jul 21, 2022 | Infrastructure dept to swap data centres for IaaS by early 2023 | The Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts is set to exit the on-premises data centres it uses by early 2023, with all virtual machines and data to be migrated to the cloud.
The department... |
| Jul 8, 2022 | Accenture picks up another $21.6m for Australia's business register overhaul | Accenture has been handed a further $21.6 million for its work on Australia’s single business register, pushing the cost of the modernising business registers (MBR) program above $230 million.
The Australian Taxation Office revealed a “busi... |
| Jul 6, 2022 | Services Australia spends $50m on IBM Power hardware upgrade | Services Australia will upgrade the Power Systems servers underpinning its OpenStack private cloud under a new $49.9 million contract with IBM.
The three-year “hardware and software services” deal was revealed last week, five years after it... |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Services Australia extends Hume data centre lease with CDC | Services Australia has extended its main data centre lease with Canberra Data Centres, bringing the cost of facility access to $295 million over the last decade.
The 15-month extension was revealed last week, when the services agency publis... |
| Jun 16, 2022 | Border Force searched more than 40,000 devices in five years | Australian Border Force conducted over 41,410 warrantless - but legal - searches of electronic devices at the country's borders between 2017 and 2021, iTnews can reveal.
iTnews can also reveal that travellers don't have to be informed of th... |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Defence begins search for cloud provider to carry secret data | The Department of Defence has gone to market for a cloud provider to deliver an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform that will underpin its planned secret-level cloud environment.
Defence issued an expression of interest for the firs... |
| May 27, 2022 | Defence reveals plans for secret cloud environment | The Department of Defence is set to establish a “diversified suite of secret cloud services” to transform its IT environment and improve information sharing with other agencies.
The department revealed plans for multi-vendor IaaS, PaaS and ... |
| May 17, 2022 | RBA pushes first IaaS workload into Azure | The Reserve Bank of Australia pushed its first infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) workload into Microsoft Azure with the completion of its ‘data bunker’ earlier this year.
In June 2020, the central bank revealed plans to establish the data ... |
| May 4, 2022 | Clean Energy Regulator swaps Fujitsu for Digital61 | The Clean Energy Regulator has selected Canberra-based Digital61 as its IT services provider for up to the next eight years under a new $11.8 million contract.
The initial three-year contract replaces a decade-long deal with Fujitsu, with C... |
| May 3, 2022 | Leidos-led consortium scores $329m Defence e-health records deal | A Leidos-led consortium has won a $329 million deal to deliver a new e-health records platform for the 80,000 deployed and non-deployed personnel in the Australia Defence Force (ADF).
iTnews can reveal the systems integrator, together with ... |
| Apr 18, 2022 | AWS Scores Australian Government Cloud Contract Renewal | AWS has secured an renewal of its whole-of-government cloud deal with the Australian government, extending the contract by three years.
AWS initially signed its cloud contract agreement with the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) in 2019. ... |
| Apr 14, 2022 | DTA renews gov-wide AWS deal for $174 million | The Digital Transformation Agency has renewed the federal government’s cloud sourcing arrangement with Amazon Web Services for another three years at a cost of $174.1 million.
The three-year contract, published on Thursday, extends the exis... |
| Apr 12, 2022 | Services Australia searches for cloud platform to host GovERP | Services Australia has begun searching for an SAP-aligned cloud platform to host the federal government’s next-generation S/4HANA enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
As work continues on the so-called GovERP system, the services agen... |
| Apr 6, 2022 | AEC taps Accenture, Epicon for election systems rebuild | The Australian Electoral Commission has enlisted Accenture and Canberra-based IT service management provider Epicon for the first phase of its once-in-a-generation core systems overhaul.
Standing offer agreements with the two companies were... |
| Mar 22, 2022 | Services Australia to upgrade IBM mainframe for $28.5m | Services Australia has handed IBM a $28.5 million contract to upgrade the storage infrastructure in its mainframe environment.
The three-year "mainframe infrastructure solution" deal comes less than 18 months out from the end of B... |
| Mar 15, 2022 | Tender raises $12M to make more realistic plant-based meat | When Christophe Chantre and fellow scientists at Harvard University published a paper on using gelatin to create scaffolding for cell-based meat in 2019, it immediately attracted a lot of attention.
It generated thoughtful discussion within... |
| Mar 15, 2022 | Tender Food Raises $12M in Seed Funding | Tender Food, a Boston, MA-based food technology startup, raised $12M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon Capital with participation from Rhapsody Venture Partners, Natalie Portman, Safar Partners, Bread and Butte... |
| Mar 15, 2022 | Tender raises $12 million to scale plant-based whole muscle cuts | BOSTON — Food technology startup Tender Foods, formerly Boston Meats, raised $12 million in seed funding to scale production of its plant-based meat products.
Launched just over a year ago, Tender is focused on replicating the structures an... |
| Mar 15, 2022 | Tender Food Raises $12 Million Seed Round Led by Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon Capital to Scale Production of Plant-Based Whole Muscle Cuts of Beef, Pork and Chicken | Startup founded by Harvard engineers to introduce novel technologies that replicate whole muscle cuts by spinning plant protein into beef steaks, pulled pork, and chicken breasts with meaty texture
New funding will support Tender’s product ... |
| Mar 10, 2022 | Defence spends $150m on compute upgrades | The Department of Defence will pay Leidos more than $150 million over the next two-and-a-half years to upgrade legacy platforms and other technologies in its data centre environment.
The department has awarded the IT services firm a handful... |
| Mar 4, 2022 | Airservices eyes fully-fledged digital replica of Australian airspace | Airservices Australia is planning to build out its digital twin of the country’s air traffic management network to improve network planning and reduce costly delays at airports.
The government-owned corporation has been investigating a “vir... |
| Feb 25, 2022 | ATO taps Sitecore for digital experience platform | The Australian Taxation Office has settled on Sitecore for its new digital experience platform (DXP), with its main customer-facing website expected to transition before the end of 2023.
The US-based software firm was awarded an initial $2.... |
| Feb 7, 2022 | Services Australia picks EY as delivery partner for GovERP | Services Australia has enlisted the help of EY to deliver the federal government’s next-generation common SAP-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
The consultancy became a “strategic delivery partner” on the whole-of-government ... |
| Jan 28, 2022 | National facial recognition database to transition to new provider | The Department of Home Affairs has moved to replace the managed services arrangement behind its three major identity matching services, including the controversial national facial recognition database.
The super-agency began scouring the ma... |
| Jan 27, 2022 | Geoscience Australia to slim storage footprint with upgrade | Geoscience Australia will reduce its data centre storage footprint after signing a $4.7 million deal with incumbent IT services provider Cirrus Network for a “significant” infrastructure upgrade.
Cirrus revealed the contract in an ASX filin... |
| Jan 13, 2022 | Infosys gets another $71m for Centrelink calculation engine work | Infosys has landed a further $71.6 million for its work on the country’s new Centrelink payments calculation engine after the 14-month long initial build phase wrapped up last year.
The contract, posted publicly late last month, brings the ... |
| Dec 14, 2021 | IDEMIA scores $180m deal to upgrade Australia's fingerprint system | Australia’s criminal intelligence agency will have a second go at overhauling the country’s 20-year-old national fingerprint database after being forced to terminate its previous upgrade attempt in 2018.
The Australian Criminal Intelligence... |
| Nov 11, 2021 | RBA to embark on infrastructure overhaul | The Reserve Bank of Australia is gearing up for a major refresh of its banking technology infrastructure, revealing plans to stand up a cloud-based infrastructure platform and uplift its applications.
The central bank unveiled the planned t... |
| Nov 9, 2021 | Canberra's gov-wide Microsoft sourcing deal soars $600m | The federal government’s Microsoft volume sourcing arrangement has ballooned to more than $800 million, more than eight times its value in 2019, as more agencies take up Office 365 and Azure.
The agreement with Data#3 – the government’s exc... |
| Nov 3, 2021 | PROG Holdings, Inc. Announces Intention to Purchase up to $425 Million of Common Stock in Modified Dutch Auction Tender Offer | PROG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:PRG), the fintech holding company for Progressive Leasing, Vive Financial, and Four Technologies, today announced its intention to launch a “modified Dutch auction” tender offer to purchase up to $425 million in va... |
| Oct 29, 2021 | Services Australia says phone-cracking tech not used for income support compliance | Services Australia says it is not using software from controversial surveillance technology firm Cellebrite on genuine welfare recipients, but only to investigate “suspected or real criminal and fraud matters”.
The agency responsible for ad... |
| Oct 27, 2021 | Teva Announces $3,500,000,000 Debt Tender Offers for Notes Due 2022-2024 | Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE and TASE: TEVA) (“Teva”) announced today that it has commenced tender offers (the “Offers”) to purchase for cash for a combined aggregate purchase price (exclusive of accrued and unpaid interest) of... |
| Oct 15, 2021 | Defence hands IBM $42m for SAP case management system | The Department of Defence has handed IBM Australia $42 million to deliver an SAP case management system under the second tranche of its massive enterprise resource planning (ERP) overhaul.
The department revealed the 19-month deal late last... |
| Oct 4, 2021 | Chevron : Announces $2 Billion Note Tender Offers (Form 8-K) | Chevron Announces $2 Billion Note Tender Offers
Offers are for 23 Series of Notes Issued by Chevron and Certain of its Subsidiaries
San Ramon, Calif. - October 4, 2021 - Chevron Corporation ("Chevron", NYSE: CVX) today announced t... |
| Oct 4, 2021 | Chevron : CORRECTING and REPLACING Chevron Announces $2 Billion Note Tender Offers | This news release corrects a prior version published on October 4, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. (Eastern time) and is updated to revise the fixed spread figures of the series of notes listed as Acceptance Priority Level #19, #20 and #23 in the chart. ... |
| 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... |
| Sep 22, 2021 | ATO looks for its own digital experience platform | The Australian Taxation Office is set to bring all of its websites onto a single platform to give customers and staff a “next generational digital experience”.
The national revenue agency revealed plans for a digital experience platform (DX... |
| Sep 21, 2021 | Adobe scores $32m myGov software deal | Adobe has won a lucrative contract to provide the “core customer experience technology” that will underpin the federal government’s new Facebook-inspired myGov digital services platform.
The vendor scored the $32.3 million deal with Service... |
| Aug 31, 2021 | Accenture's ATO digital ID work bill quadruples to $54 million | Accenture’s digital identity contract at the Australian Taxation Office has quadrupled to $54 million after the program of work was extended by 12 months.
The consulting giant was first awarded the deal in January, just months after the gov... |
| Aug 18, 2021 | Howmet Aerospace : Announces $1.5 Billion Share Repurchase Authorization, Proposed Debt Offering, and Cash Tender Offer for 2025 Notes | Howmet Aerospace Inc. (“Howmet Aerospace” or the “Company”) (NYSE:HWM) today announced a number of capital allocation actions.
The Board of Directors of Howmet Aerospace authorized an additional share repurchase program for up to $1.5 billi... |
| Aug 18, 2021 | Howmet Aerospace : Announces $1.5 Billion Share Repurchase Authorization, Proposed Debt Offering, and Cash Tender Offer for 2025 Notes (Form 8-K) | Howmet Aerospace Announces $1.5 Billion Share Repurchase Authorization, Proposed Debt Offering, and Cash Tender Offer for 2025 Notes
Key Announcements
Howmet Aerospace today announced:
· Authorization of an additional share repurchase progr... |
| Aug 16, 2021 | Govt looks for new SMS warning system to augment Emergency Alert | The federal government has begun scouring the market for a national cell broadcast messaging system (NMS) to send SMS warnings in near real-time during emergencies and natural disasters.
After receiving $2.2 million to get the project under... |
| Aug 5, 2021 | Defence hands EY $10m for a five month job | The Department of Defence will pay Ernst & Young more than $2 million a month for five months of work on its billion-dollar enterprise resource planning (ERP) overhaul.
The department awarded the consultancy a $10.4 million “strategic p... |
| Jul 30, 2021 | AFP searches for a tracking system that supports 4G, 5G devices | The Australian Federal Police is set to stand up a single system to manage the tracking of persons of interest and officers in order to pave the way for 4G and 5G devices.
The national policing agency revealed plans for the universal tracki... |
| Jul 26, 2021 | Defence helps ADF members relocate with new Pega-powered app | The Department of Defence has launched PostingConnect, a new Pega-powered platform to help serving ADF members relocate interstate and – in the future – overseas with minimum fuss.
Delivered by Accenture, PostingConnect streamlines and auto... |
| Jul 23, 2021 | Govt forced to release overdue COVIDSafe report | The federal government has been forced to release a heavily redacted version of a report evaluating the effectiveness of its COVIDSafe contact tracing app after failing to produce the report itself.
But the document covering the first six m... |
| Jul 13, 2021 | Accenture paid another $57m to support My Health Record until 2022 | The federal government has handed Accenture a further $57 million to support the My Health Record for another year while its massive national infrastructure modernisation program continues.
It brings the total cost of the national infrastru... |
| Jul 7, 2021 | Accenture, IBM, Arq Group round out myGov system integrator panel | Services Australia has settled on the four systems integrators that will carry out its $200 million myGov rebuild, as Deloitte gets to work developing a new mobile application to access the government services platform.
The agency has revea... |
| Jul 6, 2021 | Govt to build My Health Record app | The federal government will develop its very own mobile application for Australians to access the My Health Record, as the overhaul of the country’s national digital health infrastructure gains speed.
The Australian Digital Health Agency re... |
| Jul 5, 2021 | Deloitte scores national health API gateway deal | Deloitte has won a major contract with the federal government to build the health information gateway that will replace the My Health Record’s Oracle API gateway.
The Australian Digital Health Agency revealed the deal with the consulting gi... |
| Jun 24, 2021 | ATO embeds TigerGraph graph database to fight tax avoidance | The Australian Taxation Office will use a graph database from US-based startup TigerGraph within its new big data platform to aid in curbing tax avoidance and fraud.
TigerGraph has revealed its partner, Sydney-based Intech Solutions, has re... |
| Jun 4, 2021 | Services Australia, Infosys renegotiate Centrelink payments engine build | Services Australia has renegotiated its contract with Infosys for the build of the country’s new Centrelink payments calculation engine to keep better tabs on the project as it approaches delivery.
iTnews can reveal the pair negotiated a ne... |
| May 13, 2021 | Verso Corporation Announces Commencement of $55.0 Million Modified Dutch Auction Tender Offer for its Class A Common Stock | |
| Apr 19, 2021 | ATO to create single digital mailbox for businesses | The Australian Taxation Office is planning to create a single digital mailbox for registered companies to receive all government correspondence as part of the $480 million business registers overhaul.
The national revenue agency has issued ... |
| Apr 16, 2021 | Defence redesigns IT services mega panel, calls for new providers | The Department of Defence has opened its massive IT service panel to new providers interested in joining after redesigning the arrangement last year.
The department’s chief information officer group issued a tender on Thursday calling for I... |
| Apr 9, 2021 | HealthEngine paid $3.8m for vaccine booking system | HealthEngine has been paid almost $4 million for the GP booking platform component of the federal government’s Covid-19 vaccination information and booking service.
The Department of Health published the year-long contract on Thursday, more... |
| Apr 7, 2021 | Home Affairs agrees to new five-year data centre deal with CDC | The Department of Home Affairs has struck a new five-year data centre hosting deal with Canberra Data Centres to support its migration from Global Switch’s Sydney-based data centre.
The $6.3 million contract, published last week, will allow... |
| Mar 9, 2021 | Defence taps Fujitsu, Leidos for $175 million deployed IT overhaul | The Department of Defence has selected Fujitsu, Leidos and KBR to transform the network infrastructure and end user computing that supports 70,000 ADF personnel during military operations.
The new IT services contracts, announced on Tuesday... |
| Mar 5, 2021 | Premier Health Announces $18M Paratransit Tender Win | MONTRÉAL, March 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Premier Health of America Inc. (TSXV: PHA) (“Premier Health” or the “Corporation”), a leading Canadian Healthtech company, is pleased to announce that it was awarded two five years paratransit co... |
| Feb 24, 2021 | Infosys scores another $40m for Centrelink payments engine build | Infosys has scored another $40 million for the build of the country’s new Centrelink payments calculation engine, bringing the total value of the overhaul to more than $200 million.
A batch of contracts relating to the work were published l... |
| Feb 22, 2021 | Home Affairs wants one portable biometric scanner to rule them all | Australian Border Force (ABF) officers are set to receive a fleet of new portable and handheld biometric devices capable of both collecting and verifying fingerprints and facial images.
The Department of Home Affairs approached technology v... |
| Feb 11, 2021 | Deloitte revealed as first systems integrator for new myGov platform | Deloitte has been named the first systems integrator on a multi-vendor panel arrangement that will be used to develop the next stage of the government’s Facebook-inspired son-of-myGov platform.
The digital arm of the consulting giant, Deloi... |
| Feb 9, 2021 | Services Australia in CX software search for son-of-myGov platform | Services Australia has begun scouring the market for a suite of customer experience (CX) applications to form part of the federal government’s new Facebook-inspired digital services platform.
In a request for expressions of interest release... |
| Jan 22, 2021 | Defence delays Global Switch data centre exit by up to five years | The Department of Defence has delayed its exit from Global Switch’s Sydney-based data centre by up to five years after plans to move all of its data from the facility fell short last year.
The department extended its relationship with the C... |
| Jan 21, 2021 | DXC to deliver Australia's new job seeker platform | The Department of Education, Skills and Employment (DESE) has selected DXC Technology to deliver a Microsoft-based digital experience platform that will support the country's job seekers and employers.
Called ‘Digital First’, the platform i... |
| Jan 19, 2021 | Defence switches on initial SAP ERP system capability | The Department of Defence has begun to see the fruits of its massive ERP transformation, with the first major capability release under the billion-dollar program now underway.
iTnews can reveal that initial finance reporting capabilities we... |
| Jan 15, 2021 | ASIC swaps Global Switch for Canberra Data Centres | The Australian Securities and Investments Commission will start moving out of Global Switch’s Sydney-based data centre later this year after signing a four-year deal with Canberra Data Centres.
Under the $4.2 million contract published this... |
| Nov 27, 2020 | Govt inks Oracle deal to cut IT procurement costs | The federal government has entered a whole-of-government volume sourcing agreement with Oracle in a bid to cut the cost of procurement.
The three-year deal was revealed on Friday afternoon following more than three years of negotiations wit... |