Trending in the latest news, the 2020 federal budget is out and hundreds of millions of dollars are set to flow into IT. Government agencies will receive funding for a wide range of projects in this year’s budget that is largely dominated by the pandemic.
Federal Budget 2020: All the Tech
Services Australia is set to receive a half a billion-dollar investment for completing its massive Centrelink IT overhaul, that began more than five years ago.
The additional funding brings the project’s budget to over $1.1 billion spread over nine years. Services Australia also got $116.3 million as part of the second phase of its Medicare payments system modernisation, and funding to sustain and rebuild myGov. The once-in-a-generation overhaul of the Australian Electoral Commission’s 30-year-old election IT systems will see funding of $97 million. The Department of Home Affairs will receive an undisclosed amount for data storage....MORE
