Tag: APS

Gig guide: Stela Solar steps down from National AI Centre

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The inaugural director of the National AI Centre Stela Solar will depart the organisation next week, six months after the government announced that the centre would shift from the...

Consulting giants take $900m hit under Labor

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Big Four consulting firms and Accenture received almost $900 million less from federal agencies last year compared to the Coalition government’s final 12 months, data to be released...

Defence and tech lead Canberra’s $528m insourcing drive

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Technology and Defence contractors account for most of the $528 million in outsourced work that federal agencies will bring back in house this financial year under Labor’s directive to...

China-linked investors offload Sydney data centre for $2b

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Chinese-owned data centre provider Global Switch Australia will be acquired by asset manager HMC Capital for $2 billion, more than four years after federal government agencies were told to...

Gig Guide: Pirani returns to OAIC as FOI Commissioner

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has again called on Toni Pirani to fill in as Freedom of Information Commissioner as the agency struggles to find a long-term...

ATO to save $32m on tech outsourcing

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Australian Taxation Office will cut tech outsourcing by $32 million, with the agency’s adoption of artificial intelligence and other automation technologies to be increasingly delivered in-house. The decline...

New laws clear path to pursue ex-agency heads over Robodebt

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Albanese government will introduce legislation to provide an express power for the Public Service Commissioner to investigate former agency heads, after some ex-mandarins claimed leaving the public service...

APS agencies run with Microsoft Copilot after trial

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
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...

Gig Guide: Treasury Secretary gets second term

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Treasury Secretary Steven Kennedy has been reappointed on another five-year term as his department prepares to deliver the Future Made in Australia agenda. Mr Kennedy was originally appointed Treasury...