Federal agencies that go rogue and defy whole-of-government digital policies and standards are attracting the attention of the powerful Expenditure Review Committee of Cabinet. Finance minister Katy ...

Defence spent $90 million before cancelling a tender process, which had already selected Lockheed Martin, to own and operate three to five geostationary satellites, officials have revealed. The ...

Macquarie University has ratcheted-up ambitions for commercialising technology in the semiconductor industry, launching an on-campus Silicon Platforms Lab (SiP Lab) in collaboration with local startup ...

One of the most cited comments on Australia’s STEM industries is our strength in science, and our lack of strength in commercialisation. This claim is not without foundation. In the Global Innovation ...

The federal government’s broad definition of an Australian business is hurting the country’s economic complexity, a group of local defence, technology and space companies collectively worth more than ...

Canadian quantum computing outfit BTQ Technologies has partnered with Macquarie University on advanced quantum algorithms and secure communications research. The strategic partnership, announced on ...

Jobseekers are being asked to adjust their reporting to employment service providers to avoid a government tech glitch or risk losing their payments, shifting more burden onto vulnerable people.

Accenture’s lucrative My Health Record deal will be market tested for the first time in more than a decade next year, with the Australian Digital Health Agency planning to carve up the contract and ...

These infections, contracted by patients during medical treatment, contribute significantly to global morbidity and mortality, claiming approximately 1.5 million lives annually and resulting in ...

Consulting giant PwC will be barred from bidding on new federal government work until at least mid-next year, extending a public service directive mutually agreed by the firm and the Department of ...

Defence minister Richard Marles has defended the work of the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator after reports emerged that the design phase on its first mission had been mismanaged. But he ...

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 rebalance the ...