Three consulting firms will rake in close to $70 million over the next three years to help Australia’s cyber spy agency expand beyond Canberra and add almost 2000 staff as part of its massive REDSPICE program.
As criticism over outsourcing continues in the wake of the PwC tax leaks scandal, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has entered new deals with KPMG, Thinkplace and Synergy Group, worth a combined $69 million, to ramp up work on the landmark cybersecurity uplift program.
Under the $9.9 billion Resilience, Effects, Defence, Space, Intelligence, Cyber and Enables (REDSPICE) project funded in last year’s federal Budget, ASD is expected to double its defensive cyber capabilities and triple its offensive cyber capabilities.
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