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KBR has secured a contract to provide sustainment services for the Australian Defence Force Secure Deployed Networks. The $25-million contract includes services like supply-chain management, identity and access management, as well as technical services to enable convergence of these networks. Per the contract, KBR will provide Information Communications Technology, engineering and logistics support for the ADF Chief Information Officer Group (“CIOG”) in Canberra, Sydney, as well as Brisbane.
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The Department of Defence stood up a suite of protected-level Microsoft collaboration tools for its workforce in less than 11 weeks to support the work from home shift earlier this year. CIO Stephen Pearson told the Technology in Government summit that the virtual environment for remote access (VERA) solution was developed to secure interactions during remote work.
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The Department of Defence has looked within to find its new permanent chief information security officer after the top job was vacated earlier this year. iTnews can reveal the department’s cyber security operations director Jonathan Dean was promoted into the ICT security assistant secretary role earlier this month. He replaces Lindsay Morgan, who left the role after just 11 months in March to become SAP’s A/NZ director for government security.
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The Department of Defence is planning to build a proof-of-concept that will allow it to track the provenance of IT products using blockchain technology. The department’s chief information office group expects to kick off the “discovery project” next month in a bid to secure its supplier ecosystem and reduce unforeseen security risks.
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The Department of Defence has found its last missing chief information officer group (CIOG) deputy, ending a year-long period in which it was without a full five-member leadership team. Dean Welsh joined as the department’s ICT delivery first assistant secretary in April, completing CIOG’s line-up of senior executives. He replaces former head Paul Cazaz, who left the department after two-and-a-half years in July 2019 to become ME Bank’s core banking (IT) general manager.
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The Department of Defence is set to embark on fewer “concurrent complex, disruptive and expensive” IT transformations and rely more heavily on smaller, iterative IT capabilities in a shake-up of its investment planning processes. As a review of its decade-old IT operating model continues, the department has revealed plans to introduce a “rolling forward work program” to ensure its systems remain up-to-date and secure.
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Some of Canberra’s biggest IT shops have been targeted by the Australian National Audit Office in its latest laundry list of reviews scheduled to take place over the next 12 months. The auditor will also double-down on cyber security, with two potential reviews centering around the cyber resilience of government agencies after repeated failures. Out of its annual work program of 69 potential reviews for 2020-21, released earlier this month, more than 10 are aimed at IT, cyber security, privacy and data.
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The Department of Defence has begun searching for a new chief information security officer after losing its last ICT security assistant secretary. The department put out the call for a “dynamic and outstanding senior executive” to fill the vacancy on Thursday, three months after CISO Lindsay Morgan left for a private sector gig. Morgan, who left the top job after just 11 months in March, has since joined SAP as its Australia/New Zealand director for government security.
