Home Affairs has added $2.8 million of professional services to support its decade-long $30 million investment in Pegasystems, but has ruled out any attempt at another government-wide platform based...
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The federal offshoot of disgraced consultancy PwC will be paid almost $40,000 a day for the next 15 months to assist with the Health and Aged Care department’s technology...
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AI technologies have helped the tax office raise hundreds of millions of dollars in additional revenue, but are also giving adversaries new tools to launch cyber attacks and turbocharge...
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A fleet of Chinese-made drones grounded by Australia’s border agency over national security concerns have been swapped out for US-built technology vetted by the US Department of Defense. The...
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The tax office will pay Accenture $45 million a year to manage its enterprise operations, app development, infrastructure and DevOps, pushing the tech services giant’s total work for the...
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The federal government has unveiled its ERP marketplace, giving departments and agencies a choice of local and multinational software vendors for their back-office system for the first time since...
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An APS-wide trial of Microsoft Copilot might have wrapped up but it has not stopped federal government agencies from continuing to pay a premium to use the generative AI...
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The cost of the Department of Health and Aged Care’s customer relationship management project has passed $116 million after software giant Salesforce and partner Capgemini landed lucrative contract amendments....
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The Board of the National Disability Insurance Agency approved a multi-million dollar proposal for a new customer relationship management system without a business case, an independent review has found....
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The New South Wales government has inked a fresh multi-million dollar deal with Salesforce, giving agencies a pathway to software from the tech giant for the next four years....
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A stocktake of internet-facing systems will be carried out across the federal government over the next 12 months as part of a new directive designed to weed out vulnerable...
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Parliament’s powerful audit committee will probe how agencies manage contracts after damning audits – including investigations of two Accenture technology projects – revealed serious capability and probity gaps. The...
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A Salesforce ethics office set up to approve the software giants’ gifts to government officials cleared only three of the 112 gifts to the disability insurance agency around a...
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The New South Wales government has tweaked its AI guidance for public servants and will now require that only systems with high levels of residual risk undergo external review....