Tag: NEC

NSW looks to local SMEs for quantum edge in transport

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Local quantum firms are being called up to design bespoke hardware that can be used by the New South Wales government to solve problems on Sydney’s creaking public transport...

Deloitte lands another big federal platform fix

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Deloitte has won a $1.5 million contract to make sure the government’s second attempt to develop a tech platform to manage apprenticeships goes better than the first go, which...

NEC joins Sydney tech precinct project

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Japanese tech giant NEC has signed on as a founding partner of the New South Wales government’s multi-billion-dollar Innovation and Technology Precinct to be constructed around Sydney’s Central railway...

NEC Australia loses half its leadership

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The departure of NEC Australia general manager Mike Barber means half of the tech company’s leadership team has left in the last year and a half, in the wake...

ANAO shreds NEC biometric project

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The national crime intelligence commission’s management of its doomed biometrics project was “deficient in almost every significant respect” and no milestones were met despite more than $34 million being...

$26m lost on biometric project 

Posted on   |  by James Riley
At least $26 million in taxpayer funds was lost on the national crime intelligence commission’s doomed biometrics project before it was canned earlier this year. In June the ACIC...

Tech wreck report delayed again

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A Senate report on the federal government’s series of “tech wrecks” has been delayed again following the shuttering of another high-profile IT project. The Labor-led Finance and Public Administration...

NEC identity gig faces ANAO audit

Posted on   |  by James Riley
An investigation has been launched into the suspended biometrics project that NEC Australia was doing for the Australian Crime Intelligence Commission. The audit of the Australian Crime Intelligence Commission’s...

NEC staff walked from identity gig

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government’s digital verification plans are in disarray after the national crime intelligence commission’s troubled biometrics project with NEC Australia was suspended and staff members were escorted from...