Sector: Defence

Following the release of the landmark Defence White Paper a week ago, Minister for Defence Joel Fitzgibbon has acknowledged many of the reforms suggested in the White Paper are to make up for “long-term underinvestment in Defence ICT”.

The Government has allocated $660 million across the next four years to overhaul the management of Defence information...

Defence is to receive $308 billion in the decade to 2018-19 under the new funding model described in the Defence White Paper, Defending Australia in the Asia Pacific Century: Force 2030, released in May this year.

The Australian Government has since provided more detail about its future spending plans with the release of the Defence Capability Plan and the Department of Defence and Defence Materials Organisation Procurement Plans...

Earlier this year, well-publicised problems with the payment of salaries and allowances to Australia’s elite SAS forces highlighted ongoing problems with Defence’s HR systems. 

More recently, Defence Minister John Faulkner publicly spoke of the extent of the problem, and reiterated the Government’s commitment to invest “up to $500 million in a new payroll system, underpinned by robust processes and training packages”...

Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Support, the Hon. Dr Mike Kelly AM MP has announced that Defence is inviting the information and communication technologies (ICT) industry to help implement its distributed computing and terrestrial communications ICT services needs.

This follows an Invitation to Register Interest (ITR) undertaken by Defence that closed in September...