Defence bypassed procurement rules for its trouble-plagued $199 million security clearance system, granting only Accenture the opportunity to develop a ‘solution to a budget’, an audit has found. The...
Australia’s domestic spy agency has been handed control the government’s high level security vetting, after legislation that moved the powers from a dedicated agency and created a new ‘Top...
The Accenture-built myClearance vetting system is now “working as technically designed”, according to officials at the Department of Defence, but it will take at least another half a year...
The federal government will begin using artificial intelligence-infused software to scour the public internet and dark web as part of security clearance checks after signing an almost $10 million...
The rollout of the Accenture-built government security vetting system continues to face complications, as the agency in charge fails to meet its KPI on baseline clearances. Technical issues with...