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Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Tier 1 Projects
| Project name and description | DCAs | Delivery status | Total budget ($m) | Digital budget ($m) | Project timeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Digital Services to Take Farmers to Markets (TFTM) The TFTM program is transforming Australia’s agricultural export systems with the delivery of contemporary digital products and services for trade and exporter engagement. Tranche 1 established the foundations for the digital reforms by uplifting existing systems onto modern and reliable platforms and developing new digital services. Tranche 2 builds on the capabilities delivered in Tranche 1 by delivering a dynamic program of work that enables the department to be a risk-based, data-enabled regulator. | 2026 Medium-High 2025 Medium-Low 2024 Medium-HIgh | Active | 322.9 | 322.9 | October 2020 to June 2026 |
Tier 2 Projects
| Project name and description | DCAs | Delivery status | Total budget ($m) | Digital budget ($m) | Project timeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Capital Security, Technology, and Asset Refresh (CapSTAR) The CapSTAR program aims to refresh and maintain essential property and ICT assets, reduce risk in service delivery and ensure critical business systems are supported, patched and resilient. The outcome will be a sustainable and efficient technology and physical infrastructure portfolio, through reduced technical debt and increased physical and cyber maturity. | 2026 Medium-High 2025 Medium-High | Active | 287.9 | 201.2 | July 2024 to June 2028 |
Simplified Targeting and Enhanced Processing Systems (STEPS) The STEPS program will transform the border process for cargo importers who depend on the department to mitigate and regulate biosecurity risk in a challenging global marketplace. At the time of preparing this report, this project is subject to the escalation protocols set out in the Assurance Framework for Digital and ICT Investments. These protocols are designed to support agencies in the timely resolution of delivery challenges. | 2026 Medium 2025 Medium-Low 2024 Medium | Active | 144.9 | 144.9 | July 2023 to June 2026 |
Supporting a Stronger and More Sustainable Agriculture Sector This project aims to uplift the ICT, data and statistical systems capabilities to meet the department’s needs. This will improve the accessibility of agricultural data and information, improve and remediate survey processing systems, rebuild geospatial infrastructure and gather requirements on future capabilities necessary to transform and enable agricultural data and information products to suit changing needs. | 2026 Medium-High 2025 Medium-High 2024 Not reported | Active | 9.5 | 9.5 | July 2023 to June 2026 |
Tier 3 Projects
| Project name and description | Delivery status | Total budget ($m) | Digital budget ($m) | Project timeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Climate Services for Agriculture (CSA) Program The CSA Program aims to build drought resilience by enabling users to anticipate future climate conditions, compare those conditions with historical climate records, and consider potential impacts on the food and fibre products they produce. CSA provides climate projections for specific commodities at a local scale via a free online platform, ‘My Climate View’. | Active | 22.0 | 11.5 | July 2025 to July 2028 |
Knowledge Management (Dorper2) This project aims to make the knowledge generated by the Future Drought Fund (FDF) more accessible, and promote wider adoption through a systematic and strategic approach. It will develop a knowledge management system (Dorper2) to collect and store FDF knowledge, such as program outputs and outcomes, project data and information, and contract management information. | Active | 7.6 | 7.6 | April 2025 to June 2028 |