Digital Transformation Agency
Digital Transformation Agency
Finance portfolio
Verified figures
- Contracts (all years): 1,432
- Contract value (all years): 1,935,556,842 AUD
- Contract value (2026): 129,196,902 AUD
- APS headcount: 347
- Budget 2026-27: 73,882 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 648,291 AUD
- Directory roles: 9
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Coverage — named in the headline (40)
- 2026-07-27 — DTA’s IT policy management ‘dangerously incompetent’, claims senator
- 2026-07-21 — DTA puts ANAO on the hook for maintaining trust in government AI
- 2026-04-23 — DTA sounds alarm on ‘low‑effort’ AI
- 2026-02-08 — DTA review doesn’t deliver whole picture on government contracts
- 2025-11-25 — DTA commissions official catalogue of dud suppliers to government
- 2025-11-17 — DTA has issues with new consultancy probe legislation
- 2024-12-18 — DTA moves to broaden APS tech skills accreditation
- 2024-11-17 — Federal IT vendor mega-deals put into play by the Digital Transformation Agency
- 2024-07-24 — DTA boss confession: ‘More a technologist than CEO’
- 2024-07-07 — DTA cites ‘barriers to AI replacing APS workers’
- 2024-03-17 — New DTA marketplace live, several procurement crackdowns included
- 2023-08-23 — NACC referrals piling-up fast as DTA operations chief decamps to watchdog
- 2023-03-06 — DTA announces next steps in maintaining government data safety
- 2023-03-06 — Turnbull laments DTA impotence on robodebt, rest of APS
- 2022-11-15 — DTA CEO tasked with growing APS digital capability in new role
- 2022-10-05 — DTA to face fresh parliamentary inquiry over horror audit
- 2022-09-23 — DTA horror audit raises ‘very concerning issues’: Gallagher
- 2022-09-21 — DTA damned by scathing Audit report, future uncertain
- 2022-08-23 — DTA making safe and secure progress on cloud journey
- 2022-08-17 — DTA to create new data centre panel
- 2021-06-28 — DTA buys digital records-management solution
- 2021-06-18 — DTA boss departs to take on trade role
- 2021-05-25 — Services Australia takes over myGov, digital identity from DTA
- 2021-04-19 — DTA remains under Stuart Robert’s watch despite move into PM&C
- 2021-02-25 — DTA announces next round of IT administrator courses for APS digital profession
- 2020-11-29 — DTA signs whole-of-government services agreement with Oracle
- 2020-11-17 — DTA seeking feedback on proposed Digital Identity laws
- 2020-11-10 — DTA to deliver government business architecture and Platforms Marketplace
- 2020-10-06 — Women in digital: applications open for DTA’s new digital leadership program
- 2020-09-25 — Registrations open for DTA’s biggest event of the year
- 2020-07-08 — DTA creates beta model which simplifies complexity of government
- 2020-06-25 — Movers & shakers: DTA appoints chief strategy officer
- 2020-06-22 — DTA seeking provider for EL1 women in digital coaching program
- 2020-06-12 — DTA embarks on whole-of-government architecture plan to enable APS reform and streamline services
- 2020-04-30 — DTA’s Randall Brugeaud new digital head of profession, digital stream strategy launched
- 2020-04-29 — Stuart Robert thanks DTA and Services Australia staff for hard work during pandemic
- 2020-02-05 — Want to be the DTA’s next chief strategy officer?
- 2020-01-22 — DTA seeks comms strategy to soothe privacy concerns over digital identity program
- 2019-10-31 — Quick win: DTA shows how it’s done with open-source notification platform
- 2019-10-22 — DTA to launch cloud marketplace in 2020
Passing mentions (10 shown)
Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.
- 2026-08-26 — Public service poised to get AI-ready
- 2026-08-18 — AI governance becoming an operating model problem
- 2026-07-17 — AI sovereignty is the power to leave
- 2026-07-13 — From paper to pixels: The digital border vision finally lands
- 2026-06-30 — APS AI early adopter gets auditor-general treatment
- 2026-06-25 — Movers & Shakers: Indigenous aged care commissioner appointed
- 2026-06-23 — Federal government introduces AI review committee
- 2026-06-10 — More than automation: What agentic AI means for person-centred government
- 2026-06-08 — Market failure? The limits of digital marketplaces in providing care
- 2026-06-03 — Balancing AI adoption with accountability in government agencies
Names over time
What each source called this agency, and in which years. Taken from the sources themselves, not from a register of establishment dates — those are not published.
| Reported as | Source | Years | Rows |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Transformation Office ⚠️ | APSC APS Employment Data | 2015-16 to 2016-17 | 364 |
| Digital Transformation Office ⚠️ | APSC agency metrics | 2015-16 to 2016-17 | 13 |
| Digital Transformation Agency | APSC APS Employment Data | 2016-17 to 2025-26 | 1,521 |
| Digital Transformation Agency | APSC agency metrics | 2016-17 to 2025-26 | 204 |
| Digital Transformation Agency | Annual report KMP disclosure | 2018-19 to 2024-25 | 72 |
| Digital Transformation Agency | Annual report governance tables | 2018-19 to 2024-25 | 44 |
| Digital Transformation Agency | AusTender (names as at today, not as at the contract) | 2019-20 to 2026-27 | 1,432 |
| Digital Transformation Agency | Annual report expenditure | 2022-23 to 2024-25 | 20 |
| Digital Transformation Agency | Portfolio Budget Statements | 2024-25 to 2029-30 | 40 |
⚠️ This agency has not always carried its current name. Figures in the earlier years were reported as Digital Transformation Office (2015-16 to 2016-17). They are shown here because the series is continuous, not because the agency is.
Payments to organisations — as reported by the agency
| Category | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Non-consultancy contracts | 15 | $52,446 |
| Consultancy | 5 | $1,641 |
Largest recipients across all reported years
| Organisation | ABN | Reported total | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Moore Street Pty Ltd | 69008585260 | $24,400 | 2023-24 |
| Anchoram Consulting Pty Ptd | 85197062817 | $9,233 | 2022-23 |
| 11 Moore Street Pty Ltd (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 70208432801 | $5,035 | 2022-23, 2024-25 |
| 35 South Advisors | 31646395397 | $2,634 | 2022-23 |
| Maddocks | 63478951337 | $1,749 | 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| Evolve & Amplify Pty Ltd | 56633358095 | $1,430 | 2022-23 |
| CapGemini Aust Pty Ltd | 11092284314 | $1,423 | 2024-25 |
| BT Automation Pty Ltd | 70619362104 | $1,387 | 2024-25 |
| Australian Government Solicitor | 69405937639 | $1,373 | 2024-25 |
| ConceptSix | 54641263238 | $1,316 | 2022-23 |
| The Trust Company (Australia) Limited | 69945885497 | $903 | 2023-24 |
| EY Digital | 43096505805 | $806 | 2023-24 |
From the expenditure disclosures in each annual report — a separate source from the AusTender contract figures above, and not directly comparable with them.
Workforce profile — as at 2025-12-31
| Measure | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| % CALD | 29.1% | at this date |
| % Female | 57.1% | at this date |
| % Indigenous | 0.6% | at this date |
| % at the APS classification level | 47.8% | at this date |
| % non-ongoing | 5.2% | at this date |
| % part-time (ongoing employees) | 4.0% | at this date |
| % who have worked in only one agency (ongoing employees) | 41.9% | at this date |
| % with a bachelors degree or higher | 70.5% | at this date |
| % with a disability | 8.9% | at this date |
| Exit rate - from agency (ongoing employees) | 14.4% | Year ending December 2025 |
| Headcount | 347 | at this date |
| Mean Age (years) | 40.3 years | at this date |
| Median LOS in APS (years) | 5.1 years | at this date |
| Separation rate - from APS (ongoing employees) | 4.9% | at this date |
APSC APS Employment Data, counting this agency including any bodies beneath it. Headcount, not FTE — the APSED release does not publish FTE.
Year by year
| Measure | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APS headcount | 198 | 234 | 245 | 245 | 293 | 292 | 244 | 287 | 327 | 347 | |
| SES | 8 | ||||||||||
| Contracts | 285 | 456 | 192 | 127 | 121 | 120 | 119 | 12 | |||
| Contract value | $497,425,419 | $244,663,152 | $580,818,447 | $77,957,698 | $87,389,368 | $280,873,148 | $164,198,346 | $2,231,265 | |||
| Budget ($000) | 68,145 | 73,882 | |||||||||
| KMP disclosed | 8 | 8 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 4 | |||||
| Top total pay | $573,553 | $603,822 | $567,484 | $565,448 | $648,291 | $595,369 |
An empty cell means no publishable row for that year — unknown, not nil. Never read a blank as a fall to zero. ⚠️ This agency has not always carried its current name. Figures in the earlier years were reported as Digital Transformation Office (2015-16 to 2016-17). They are shown here because the series is continuous, not because the agency is. 3 value(s) for this agency are withheld as implausible against its own median — see Outputs/agency_year_series.csv for them and why.
Sources — annual reports
Each link opens transparency.gov.au — the published source the figures were read from. The label names the table to look for.
° The portal does not publish a path for this report, so the link opens the agency's reports on transparency.gov.au rather than that year directly. Pick the year from there.