Minister for Defence Stephen Smith and Minister for Defence Materiel Jason Clare announced that along with Government contribution, defence industry and other organisations will provide about $11 million in funding contributions. The project aims to improve the protective equipment that soldiers wear to combat a range of existing and evolving threats, including Improvised Explosive Devices […]
14 June, 2011
The Department of Defence planned to relocate call three centres into one premise in Mitchell as well as an upgrade to existing Avaya and Verint technology. The newly located Defence Service Desk has 200 agents and 120 back office staff managing around 2000 calls per day from about 100,000 members of the agency both […]
25 March, 2011
The Federal Government has officially opened the Cyber Security Operations Centre in Canberra as part of its commitment to understanding the cyber threat. Minister for Defence, Senator John Faulkner, said the establishment of Defence’s cyber security centre was a “major step” in meeting the Government’s 2009 Defence White Paper. “Cyber security is one of the […]
18 January, 2010
Commonwealth security checks will be conducted by a single agency from October 2010. Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, Minister for Defence, Senator John Faulkner, and Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Lindsay Tanner, have announced the establishment of a single agency to improve the security vetting process. Mr McClelland said centralisation of security checks would deliver savings of […]
7 December, 2009
By Angela Dorizas Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today announced Australia’s first national security adviser (NSA) during his inaugural national security statement to Parliament. Former Australian Special Air Services commander Duncan Lewis has been appointed to coordinate the implementation of a whole-of-government approach to national security. Mr Lewis has served in the Australian Army for more than […]
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