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Digital Transformation Program (Strengthening Integrity of the VET sector)

The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) is the national regulator of the VET sector. In February 2024, ASQA commenced a 3.5-year Digital Transformation Program to address issues with its existing ICT systems and data capabilities. The objective of the program is to ensure that ASQA is a modern, best-practice regulator, through the implementation and integration of contemporary systems and applications that will ensure ASQA can efficiently and effectively deliver its regulatory and organisational priorities.

2026 Medium-High

2025 High

VSLConnect Project

This project is enabling the Australian Government to better realise the benefits of the VET Student Loans (VSL) program and minimise the risk of occurrences such as the recent historical student debt issue. It will have a stronger focus on compliance and automation, and deliver a system that is flexible, scalable and stable with a greatly enhanced data collection, integration and analytics capability.

2026 Medium

2025 Medium-High

2024 Not reported

Parent Pathways

The project is supporting the implementation of Parent Pathways, a voluntary service that provides personalised assistance and financial support to eligible parents and carers of children up to the age of 6 years. This extended ParentsNext to 31 October 2024 and introduced Parent Pathways from 1 November 2024, which included releasing the IT system on the Workforce Australia Digital Platform and the APS Pilot. As part of the project, enhancements will be made to Parent Pathways.

2026 Medium

2025 Medium-High

Enhancements to the Workforce Australia Digital Platform to administer the redesigned foundation skills program 

The redesigned Skills for Education and Employment (SEE) program will improve the language, literacy, numeracy and digital literacy (LLND) skills for Australians. The program will feature 2 complementary streams of LLND training delivery. Enhancements to the Workforce Australia Digital Platform are required to support the delivery, data reporting and compliance arrangements of the redesigned SEE program.

Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme insourcing 

The project transferred the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility Information System (PALMIS) to the departments infrastructure from July to December 2023. Work is now focused on expanding and enhancement to align PALMIS with the department’s operating model. PALMIS will provide strong oversight and reporting which will support the government’s plan to Build a Stronger Pacific Family, uphold worker protections, and address unmet labour needs in regional and rural Australia.

Reconnection, Employment and Learning (REAL) Program 

This project supports the implementation of the REAL Program that is replacing the Time to Work Employment Service. The REAL Program is a voluntary program that will support First Nations prisoners aged 15 years and over to transition from the justice system into employment and learning.

Digital ID Program 

The Digital ID program aims to provide Australians with a secure, convenient, voluntary and inclusive way to prove their identity online. Key components include a legislative framework, an Accreditation Scheme, and the Australian Government Digital Identity System. The program will also focus on increasing public awareness and adoption across government and the private sector.

2026 Medium-High

2025 Medium-High

2024 Medium-High

Parliamentary Expenses Management System (PEMS) Enhancement Project 

The PEMS is a digital solution for the management and reporting of human resources and payroll, as well as office and travel expenses for parliamentarians, their staff and the administering agencies. The Enhancement Project is a 2-year initiative that will deliver improvements and efficiencies to the functionality of PEMS.

2026 Medium-High

2025 Medium

Improving transparency of procurement data to support the Buy Australian Plan 

This initiative supports the implementation of the Buy Australian Plan by improving the transparency of Australian Government procurement activity through enhanced AusTender capabilities, including the establishment of a dedicated and integrated panel supplier portal. It is also improving AusTender reporting capability to increase transparency.

Service Delivery Office Security and Reliability 

The Security and Reliability program will deliver necessary ICT upgrades with a focus on cyber and data capabilities to maintain the security and reliability of the Service Delivery Office, systems which provide corporate shared services to 16 client entities across the APS.

Health Delivery Modernisation (HDM)

The HDM Program stabilised, modernised and transformed the health payments system that underpins Medicare, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and other health-related programs. The HDM Program delivered new digital health services and established new health transformation capabilities to strengthen and modernise digital health across Australia’s healthcare settings, platforms and systems.

2026 Medium-High

2025 Medium-High

2024 Medium-High

Safely Connecting Australians with Support

Enhancements to the myGov platform to continue to respond to the findings of the Critical National Infrastructure myGov User Audit. This includes enhancements to the myGov support tool, strengthening myGov fraud detection capabilities, improving the myGov inbox and other communication capabilities, and supporting users to better secure their myGov accounts.

2026 Medium-High

2025 High

Overseas Health Practitioner Digital Registration Project (OHPDR) 

Australia is facing a shortage of key healthcare practitioners, putting the health system and existing workforce under pressure. Australians – especially those living in rural and remote areas – are finding it increasingly difficult to access healthcare.

Services Australia is delivering the OHPDR as part of the 2024–25 Budget Measure ‘Health workforce’. This is implementing Recommendation 2, Automate the issuance of Medicare provider numbers, of the Final Report of the Independent Review of Australia’s Regulatory Settings Relating to Overseas Health Practitioners. The report, endorsed by National Cabinet, made recommendations to improve health practitioner registration, skill and qualification recognition for overseas trained health professionals and international students who have studied in Australia. 

Response to Services Australia Budget and Efficiency Review – the Cyber Security Uplift Project (CSUP)

The CSUP was established to address immediate agency cyber security risk and improve its cyber security maturity.

Services Australia Improved Safety for Staff and Customers Phase 2 

The project is implementing recommendations of the Security Risk Management Review to strengthen security and safety measures for Services Australia staff and customers.

The 2024–25 Budget committed an additional $314.1 million over 2 years to implement some of the remaining recommendations of the review in full, strengthening security and safety measures to achieve sustained benefits for Services Australia staff and customers (Phase 2). A total of 14 review recommendations will be implemented in full with government funding (via 7 registered projects) and the remaining 30 recommendations with existing agency resources.

Strengthening Medicare – Chronic Wound Consumables Scheme for Patients with Diabetes

This project is improving the management of wounds for patients in primary care settings by providing education and training for healthcare professionals and providing fully subsidised wound consumable products to people with chronic wounds. The pilot phase of this project is limited to people with a chronic wound and diabetes who are aged 65 and over (or aged 50 and over for First Nations people). If the pilot is successful, the program may be expanded to all Australians with chronic wounds.

Go Global Toolkit Expansion (GGT)

The GGT is a single, simple and trusted source of practical export support for all Australian business. Enhancement to GGT will improve export readiness of Australian businesses and aim to grow Australian exports through capability uplift. Enhancements include online export support that is personalised and tailored to Australian business interests, capabilities and emerging global market opportunities. Businesses can access tailored market insights, events and news articles based on their sectors and markets of interest. They can also access exclusive exporting webinars and track their progress through the export journey. 

The GGT supports the government’s trade priorities, including diversification, and also provides information on how to use new free trade agreements. It allows for trade services to be delivered digitally, at scale – a key expectation of modern Australian businesses.

2026 Medium-High

2025 Medium-High

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Digital Uplift 

This program addresses cyber security vulnerabilities across DFAT’s International Communications Network and improves collaboration across government, ensuring DFAT maintains Level 2 of the Cyber Essential Eight Maturity Model.

2026 Medium

2025 Medium-High

International Communications Network (ICN) Stabilisation Program 

This program is stabilising the current ICN by replacing aged core ICT infrastructure components (servers and network switches) along with some uninterruptable power supply (UPS), fibre remediation and replacement of end-of-life Multi-Function Devices.

Stabilisation is necessary to ensure critical systems outages are reduced and support the development of new and enhanced ICT capabilities to meet Australia's current and future communication requirements, including delivery of future government foreign policy and trade goals, as detailed in DFAT’s 10-year capability plan.

2026 Medium-High

2025 High

2024 Not reported

Foreign Arrangements Scheme (FAS) – Australia’s Foreign Relations Act (AFRA) online portal and website enhancement (known as the AFRA Digital/ICT enhancement program)

This project will ensure the ongoing enhancement and maintenance of the FAS online portal and website, including the public register. This project will also ensure the government can meet its legislative responsibilities under the Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Act 2020, be responsive to stakeholder feedback and implement outcomes from the recent Legislative Review.

* This total budget reflects the costs associated with delivery of the required digital and ICT capability and does not include costs associated with managing and delivering all regulatory functions of the Foreign Arrangements Scheme. Total program budget 29.8 million.

Response to the Final Report of the Capability Review of the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission – cyber uplift

Cyber Uplift Phase 3 has commenced in July 2025 with focus on Maturity uplift and Transition covering the following projects:

1. Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) / Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) / Centralised Log Ingestion (CLI) Foundations
2. Cyber Governance – Beyond Foundations
3. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Review and targeted uplift
4. Vulnerability Management - Beyond Foundations
5. Application Control Capability Implementation
6. Vulnerability Scanning Capability Implementation
7. Integrated Security Architecture
    

Investing in a modernised My Health Record to drive a digitally connected healthcare system for all Australians 

The project will establish a new national repository service to improve the My Health Record system, aligned with the contemporary health industry data standard Health Level 7 (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). This will drive a digitally connected healthcare system for all Australians, and supports use of mobile apps, in line with the National Digital Health Strategy 2023–2028. The vision is to enable a contemporary capability for My Health Record, as a foundation for the healthcare modernisation journey, which will increase value to customers and healthcare providers accessing data.

Ensuring Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety for All Australians 

Phase 1 (completed) developed a self-service portal to enable customers of the agency’s Personal Radiation Monitoring Service to access a range of online capabilities to enhance the customer experience. 

Phase 2 (underway) is developing a laboratory information management system to improve internal workflow efficiency.

Aged Care Transformation Program – New Aged Care Act 

This project involves the design and delivery of the business and digital projects requirements to support the implementation and operationalisation of the Aged Care Act 2024.

2026 Medium-High

2025 Medium-Low

Aged Care Transformation Program – Support at Home

A new program called Support at Home brings together some in-home aged care programs from 1 November 2025. Under the Support at Home program, there will be improved access to services, products, equipment and home modifications to help older people to remain healthy, active, and socially connected to their community.

2026 Medium-High

2025 Low

2024 Medium-Low

Establishing an Australian Centre for Disease Control (CDC)

This project presents a 3-pronged approach to establishing data capability for the Australian CDC. This includes: exploratory work for a national public health surveillance system; design of nationally-consistent public health data, analytics and decision-support through a Public Health Data Network (Data Network); introduction of a public health data stewardship function to facilitate national coordination in public health action; and the development of in-house capabilities for advanced analytics within the Australian CDC to provide timely, accurate decision-support across CDC functions.

Next Phase of the National Disability Data Asset (NDDA)

The project will establish an enduring NDDA of linked, de-identified data, leveraging multiple Australian, state and territory government service systems and surveys to provide insights on the outcomes of people with disability and their pathways through services.

2026 Medium

2025 Medium

2024 Medium

One Stop Shop for Clinical Trials and Human Research

The development of the National One Stop Shop ICT platform underpins the Australian Government’s health and medical policy reform agenda. The platform will provide a single, end-to-end workflow for the research lifecycle of first contact between a research sponsor and a research site, through pre- and post-ethical approval and authorisation processes, regulatory requirements, participant recruitment and research management, to post-research monitoring and the publication of results. The common workflow will facilitate business processes of key Commonwealth agencies, and the next generation World Health Organization (WHO) compliant clinical trials and research registry, to provide a public-facing website with simplified and enhanced search functionality for the community. The reforms are supported by commitment between all jurisdictions under the Revitalised Clinical Trials Agenda, and the Encouraging More Clinical Trials in Australia measure, and agreement on the platform solution that will streamline and harmonise administration and regulation nationally, and make it easier to find and conduct health and medical research.

Alternative Clinical Arrangements for Facilities Unable to Meet a Registered Nurse Onsite Requirement

This project developed and tested a Virtual Nursing Framework in 30 residential aged care homes. Evaluation of the project will build evidence on use of virtual nursing in residential aged care settings.

Continued COVID-19 support for aged care

The primary goal of this project was to continue a range of COVID-19 outbreak management supports. The digital/ICT component funding was secured to implement a new Emergency Management Portal to replace the existing COVID-19 Support Portal. Discovery and design and re-costing for the project resulted in the decision that the project was no longer value for money and it did not proceed beyond this phase.

Enhanced Regulatory Model for Vaping Products

The project is implementing an enhanced regulatory model for vaping, to regulate the importation, domestic manufacture, supply, commercial possession and advertisement of vaping goods, including nicotine vaping products. The reforms are part of a broader effort to reduce smoking and vaping rates through stronger legislation, enforcement, education and support.
 

The primary goal of the digital component is to uplift digital processes to support the new vaping reform legislation. The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) introduced a bespoke sponsor notification scheme to facilitate lawful access to therapeutic vapes. The project will support the digital infrastructure to enable sponsors to provide compliance declarations to the TGA in a timely manner and enhance systems to enable staff to conduct post-market reviews and manage compliance priorities.

As part of efforts to address black market vape sales, the TGA is currently investigating enhancements of existing compliance management systems and greater data sharing capacity with partner law enforcement agencies (such as Australian Border Force).

Establish a National Worker Registration Scheme for Aged Care

This project is enabling the government’s commitment to establish a national worker registration scheme. The project includes delivery of an ICT solution that expands the existing National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) worker screening system to include aged care worker screening. The expanded ICT system will create a national approach to worker screening for aged care providers, with ongoing monitoring of exclusion to better protect older people.

Funding Digital Capability and Sustainment of Aged Care Systems – My Health Record (MHR) Integration

The investment was to finalise the delivery of an integrated solution, allowing the sharing of aged care information with the health sector via My Health Record.

Funding for the Regulation of Medicinal Cannabis – Cost Recovery Model Update and Office of Drug Control Business Transformation

The project supports the transformation of the Office of Drug Control business processes and ICT/digital systems. Prior reliance on outdated and inefficient manual business processes impacted Australia’s legal narcotics industry. This project will implement the outcomes of a 2022 review, to modernise systems to ensure they can support the industry and compliance activity, as well as aligning with other regulators’ digital transformation systems.

Integrated Aged Care Information and Intelligence – Risk Based Targeting and Information Sharing (RBTIS)

The department has developed a RBTIS program of work to enable the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission to better target its regulation of aged care providers (both residential aged care and home care) that are at risk of failing to provide quality care. The system achieves this by extracting different data elements from over a dozen major sources into information sharing dashboards.

Residential Aged Care – Linking Care Funding to Care Minute Delivery

This project will create a financial incentive for residential aged care providers to meet their mandatory care minutes targets by linking care minutes funding to care minutes delivery from 1 October 2025 in Modified Monash 1 (MM1) areas. To deliver this project, changes are required in aged care systems owned by the department and Services Australia, to add needed calculations and data fields to existing reporting tools. Linking funding to care delivery is the most effective, equitable and efficient policy lever available to government to bring about behaviour change from providers and is estimated to deliver a cumulative increase of 265 million more care minutes by the end of the forward estimates. It also ensures that government is not funding providers for care they are not delivering.

Setting the in Australian National Aged Care Classification (AN ACC) price for 2023–24 and ongoing residential care funding reform

This investment will support implementation of the government’s election commitment to fund the Fair Work Commission (FWC) decision for residential care aged care workers, and the annual adjustment in AN ACC funding to account for changes in aged care costs such as inflation. Necessary adjustments to the AN ACC referral, assessment and reporting functions in addition to a new hotelling supplement are also included. Progress is monitored by the Residential Aged Care Funding Reform Program Board.

Reduce Waste and Combat Fraud – Crack Down on Fraud

The Crack Down on Fraud program will boost fraud-detecting IT systems to better protect monies allocated to Australians living with disability who are on the NDIS. The investment will complement the work of the Fraud Fusion Taskforce to respond to areas of vulnerability in NDIS systems. The program includes a number of ICT improvements that will be implemented progressively and are designed to make it easier to get it right, and harder to get it wrong for everyone engaging with the NDIS.

2026 High

2025 Medium

Data and Regulatory Transformation (DART) Program

The DART Program will transform the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission data and technology systems to support new ways of working that will sustainably address issues experienced by NDIS participants, providers and workers. The DART Program aims to establish essential, risk-based regulatory capabilities that meet the Commission’s current and future legislative obligations, safeguard participants, ensure market quality and proactively manage compliance.

2026 Medium

2025 Medium

Establish the Inspector-General of Aged Care and the Office of the Inspector-General of Aged Case as a Statutory Agency

This project has established the Office of the Inspector General of Aged Care (OIGAC), following a recommendation from the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. The project includes delivery of ICT platforms and processes to ensure the OIGAC has the foundational infrastructure to support its function, with work split across 4 key workstreams:

• Stream 1 Case Management
• Stream 2 Shared Services
• Stream 3 Website
• Stream 4 Data and Analytics.
   

National Criminal Intelligence System (NCIS)

The NCIS will provide secure access to a national view of criminal information and intelligence.

2026 Medium

2025 Medium

2024 Medium-High

National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS) NextGen

The NAFIS NextGen will provide improved system serviceability by implementing a modern, future-proof software platform and cloud infrastructure hosting for the matching of national fingerprint data.

2026 High

2025 Medium-High

2024 Medium-High

National Firearms Register (NFR) Program

The NFR Program is delivering a significant capability uplift of the existing Australian Firearms Information Network (AFIN). As part of this uplift, the program will deliver a secure, end-to-end information management sharing system for firearm licences and permits. The NFR will provide timely, consistent and accurate information on firearms and their owners across all jurisdictions, strengthening law enforcement capability and enhancing police and community safety.  

The program is being delivered under a federated model across multiple Commonwealth agencies and jurisdictions. The financial figures presented in this report relate specifically to Commonwealth funding provided to the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission as the lead agency, and do not include funding allocated to other Commonwealth agencies or jurisdictions participating in the broader program implementation. 
 

At the time of preparing this reporting, the program 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

Investigation Management Solution (IMS) Program

IMS provides the Australian Federal Police (AFP) with the ability to manage investigative processes and related investigative information in a single system, enabling a consistent approach to the management of investigative information across the AFP.

Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Reform – AUSTRAC

The Australian Government is reforming Australia’s Anti Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF) regime to combat illicit financing and meet international standards, extending regulation to Tranche 2 entities. AUSTRAC will implement these changes, increasing the regulated population from 17,000 to over 100,000. This expansion will profoundly impact AUSTRAC’s regulatory activities, requiring a redesign of its approach.

2026 High

2025 Medium-Low

Digital Trade Accelerator Projects (DTAP) 

The DTAP will improve cross-border trade by enhancing border and biosecurity risk assessments and government-to-business trade data sharing.

2026 High

2025 Medium-High

Streamlining the Cargo Intervention Model (SCIM) – First Pass Business Case

This project will design, test and evaluate new cargo intervention models for cross-border trade. A trial will be conducted at a selected high-volume seaport.

2026 Medium

2025 High

Visa Modernisation/Digitisation – Sustaining Visa Processing Capability (SVPC)

This investment will improve existing visa systems in Home Affairs. Enhancements will be designed for future reuse and deliver broad operational benefits. This investment is an interim solution to sustain and enhance the existing ICT visa systems to improve visa service delivery and increase Australia’s attractiveness as a destination for travellers, temporary residents and migrants.

2026 High

2025 Medium-High

2024 Not reported

Australian Border Force (ABF) NEXUS

This project involves the development and trial of ABF Nexus application in the air cargo domain and the development of the business case for full roll out of the application across all operational domains Australia wide. Once rolled out, the application will be used nationally to record cargo examination information.

Paperless Trading – Digital Verification Platform (DVP)

This project involved the implementation of a DVP for priority trade documentation that will simplify trade for Australian exporters with trusted digital trade documents.

Risk Assessment Tobacco

This project involves the uplift of vaping and illicit tobacco risk targeting and threat detection.

Disaster Program Management System (DPMS)

The DPMS will accurately track Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA) programs at the community level and generate improved insights into program management. It will improve stability, automation and end-to-end processes, and create a robust foundation for improvements that will provide appropriate oversight of delivery of Commonwealth-funded programs.

Critical Minerals Production Tax Incentive (CMPTI)

The CMPTI is consistent with the Critical Minerals Strategy and a key component of the Future Made in Australia Package. The project aims to establish a customer portal and associated back-end Customer Relationship Management (CRM) to facilitate the submission and assessment of CMPTI applications and subsequent reporting and compliance processes.

National Measurement Institute (NMI) Digital Transformation Program

The program will address the NMI’s most urgent ICT needs, such as cyber security risks as well as critical service delivery and operational issues. The program comprises 4 key ICT work streams, which aim to remediate known vulnerabilities that pose risks to operations, uplift systems to streamline processes, enhance service delivery and improve data security.

2026 High

2025 High

An Enduring Commonwealth Function for Radioactive Waste Management

This project represents the intention of the Commonwealth to ensure safe and secure management of Australia’s radioactive waste to protect people and the environment for generations to come. The digital project, which is currently paused, aims to set up the systems required for Australian Radioactive Waste Agency to deliver an enduring function for radioactive waste management in Australia.

Single Business Service

This project will maintain the existing Single Business Service (business.gov.au and contact centre) to simplify small to medium businesses’ engagement with government. Funding will support the ongoing delivery of the business contact centre and business.gov.au including security, infrastructure and data insights capability, and ensure information and tools are up to date, so the service remains useful and usable for the Australian business community.

An Australia–United States Partnership in Landsat Next

The Australia–United States partnership in Landsat Next builds on a nearly 50-year partnership, enabling collaboration to scale up over the decades to come. The project will provide Australia with assured access to data from the Landsat Next satellites, an enhanced Alice Springs Ground Station capability, next-generation data processing, quality assurance, integrity monitoring and distribution capabilities, and provide satellite-based enhanced earth imaging products to users.

Questacon Digital Futures Project

Currently, Questacon’s software, hardware and network infrastructure do not provide a consistent, accessible customer experience. Current systems also do not meet core requirements for seamless digital transactions for users, efficient operations and secure transactions. This project is addressing these issues through targeted investment and uplift in key areas.

Fighting SMS Scams

This project is enabling the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to develop, operate and maintain an SMS ID registry to help prevent scammers from impersonating brands and entities in texts, using message headers (such as myGov), and to create a trusted communications channel.

Spectrum Management

The digital spectrum management system will include a range of new and enhanced digital and ICT capabilities to support improved spectrum management.

New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES) Regulator and IT Build

The establishment of a NVES for light vehicles will deliver more fuel-efficient cars for Australians and support the government’s commitment to achieve net zero by 2050. This investment is for the development of an effective ICT environment in which to manage the regulatory obligations around the NVES, such as data capture from vehicle suppliers/importers, reporting, facilitation of compliance and audit functions, and the establishment and maintenance of a NVES credit trading scheme.

2026 Medium

2025 Medium-High

Reporting and Program Management (RPM) System 

The RPM project is improving the administration of grant payments to states and territories for land transport infrastructure projects. Following recommendations from the Australian National Audit Office, the department is developing a new system, which has been designed to address evolving business needs and transition the current legacy system to a more scalable and flexible system. The RPM Project Objectives are: (1) Develop a new system to automate, simplify and streamline business processes; (2) Provide a single source of data for all grant process stages that is validated and accurate, easy to access and analyse; (3) Ensure the new system is intuitive, easy to use and flexible, and can be extended to meet future needs; and (4) Migrate data from the existing data sources into a consolidated source of truth for infrastructure investment.

2026 High

2025 Medium-High

2024 Medium-High

Digital First (DF) Program

The National Archives of Australia has established the DF Program to uplift its ability to manage, preserve and provide meaningful access to an increasingly digital collection of records that hold national significance.

In late 2025, the DF Program was rescoped to realign the work of the program to support implementation of the new Strategy 2025–2030: Evolving National Archives. 

The program will finish in June 2026, with additional scope relating to account and workload management to be addressed through strategy implementation.

Australian Parliamentary Technology Modernisation

This project is implementing initiatives in response to significant changes to the parliamentary operating environment and to address several critical risks that currently threaten the effective operation of the Australian Parliament.

Workforce Metrics Modernisation Program (WMMP)

The WMMP aims to stabilise the APS employment database, improving its security, usability and functionality. It will integrate APS employment data with existing Australian Bureau of Statistics data assets to enable authorised users to derive greater insights about the APS workforce.

Cyber Security Upgrades to Reduce Exposure (CURE) Program – Phase 2

The CURE program is designed to deliver a broad range of cyber security and ICT uplift initiatives for the department. The initial phase of the CURE program focused on uplifting the security posture of the department’s environment for less classified information. Phase 2 expanded the focus to also uplift the security posture of the department’s environment for more sensitive information as well as to deliver improved cyber monitoring capabilities.

2026 Medium-High

2025 Medium-High

2024 Not reported

New Disability Employment Services Reform

This project is to support/enable the reform of Employment Services for people with disability. The New Specialist Disability Employment Program, now referred to as Inclusive Employment Australia, will be underpinned by an uplift and modernisation of the ICT system, to streamline and digitise administrative processes to support an improved user experience. The technology solution will ensure future services and policy settings are supported by a fit-for-purpose, tailored digital platform that meets the needs of all job seekers, providers and employers. This includes providing more intuitive, accessible and secure interfaces for service providers who enable individualised and flexible support for job seekers. The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) and Services Australia are the delivery leads and are building or enhancing the associated ICT. The majority of the ICT costs are for DEWR and Services Australia.

2026 Medium-High

2025 Medium-High

Counter Fraud Program (Protecting against fraud and strengthening system integrity)

The Counter Fraud Program will strengthen the Australian Taxation Office’s ability to prevent, detect, contain and bring consequence to fraud and financial crime against the tax and superannuation systems.

2026 Medium-High

2025 Medium-High

Payday Super Program

The Payday Super project will address the systemic issue of unpaid and underpaid super guarantee by employers, by moving the obligation to pay from a quarterly to payday cycle. 
 

The Australian Taxation Office is building and improving data matching capabilities to match employers’ payroll data with super contribution data, providing it with near real-time visibility as to whether employers have met their obligations. The government will also redesign the super guarantee legislation in line with the move to payday super. Penalties and charges will reflect the serious nature of unpaid or underpaid super guarantee and will be recalibrated to encourage prompt rectification of non-payment with scalable consequences to deter severe or repeated non-compliance.
 

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. The delivery confidence of the program has improved following the passage of legislation in November 2025.

2026 Medium-Low

2025 Low

2024 Not reported 

Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions (BTSC)

The BTSC measure aims to reduce tax concessions for individuals with a total superannuation balance exceeding $3 million, effective from 1 July 2026. This project is enabling the delivery of this measure with first assessments expected to be issued in the second half of 2027–28.

2026 Medium-High

2025 Medium-High

2024
Not reported
 

Implementation of a Global and Domestic Minimum Tax (Pillar 2)

The Global Minimum Tax and Domestic Minimum Tax are part of a coordinated effort to address tax challenges arising from the digitalisation of the economy.
 

Australia, along with more than 130 other jurisdictions, agreed to a statement that set out the framework for Pillar 2 (the Global Anti-Base Erosion [GloBE] Model Rules). Implementing Pillar 2 will further strengthen Australia’s ability to address multinational tax avoidance.
 

The investment provides the Australian Taxation Office with the means to ensure resources are available for the ICT and data requirements to implement and administer this measure, as well as ensuring a strong ongoing compliance, advice and education focus to support the in-scope population.
 

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-High

2025 Medium

2024
Medium

Modernisation of Tax Administration systems (MTAS)

Improvements to Australian Taxation Office systems will reduce compliance costs on an ongoing basis for trustees, beneficiaries and tax agents – making lodgement easier and enabling the vast majority of trust tax returns to be lodged electronically. The improvements will also enable prefill of trust income for beneficiaries, in the same way salary and wages, bank interest and other types of income are currently prefilled.
 

Prefill capability will be enhanced by proposed legislative amendments that require trustees to report the Tax File Numbers of beneficiaries on the trust income tax return’s Statement of Distribution when they have an entitlement to trust income.