Tag: Department of Defence

Defence suppresses innovation review findings

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A government review of Australia’s defence innovation system has been released more than a year after it was completed, but heavy redactions based on public interest claims have kept...

Accenture-built vetting system issues force manual workarounds

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The rollout of a $130 million Accenture-built security vetting system has faced “substantial challenges”, with some staff redeployed to manually process clearances to meet the growing backlog. The ongoing...

Govt-wide ban looms for China-linked cameras

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Attorney General has sought advice on a government-wide ban of surveillance equipment linked to the Chinese Communist Party after an unofficial audit found at least 900 devices being...

Navy drops 20k a day on consultant-led cyber uplift

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Department of Defence will pay consultants more than $20,000 every day for the next 18 months to test the Navy’s cyber hygiene after years of government uplift programs....

IBM contracts surge after whole of government deal

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Canberra’s largest government agencies have stuck multi-year deals with IBM worth more than $350 million following the arrival of the renegotiated whole-of-government agreement earlier this month. The Department of...

Defence data centre support deal passes $2bn

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
American defence and IT services giant Leidos will be paid more than $2.6 million a week over the next two years to continue supporting Defence’s data centre and network...

Defence quietly scraps $23m student system three years in

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A cloud-based enterprise student management system that was delivered to Defence 18 months ago has been abandoned after a review found it was “unable to achieve the capability outcomes...

Consulting giants, DXC join IBM on $1bn-plus Defence SAP project

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Consulting giants Accenture and Deloitte and DXC Technology have been brought in to work on the final phase of Defence’s multi-billion-dollar enterprise resource planning (ERP) system project. The Department...