Today's Cabinet reshuffle takes the nation's cyber security policy development away from the Attorney-General's portfolio and into the Prime Minister's.

The Australian Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) has won a 2011 US National Cybersecurity Innovation Award, judged and presented by security certification and training organisation SANS Institute.

The Department of Defence has awarded a five-year contract to develop and implement an eHealth system.

Canberra-based and state-of-the-art systems engineering company, Australian Technology Information Pty Ltd (ATI) has been purchased by Austal, Australia’s leading shipbuilder and the world’s largest designer and builder of “high performance aluminium vessels for the defence and commercial markets”.

The release of tens of thousands military documents from the Afghanistan conflict by the WikiLeaks website last July had not had a direct significant impact on Australia's national security interests, Defence Minister Stephen Smith has told Parliament.

Global enterprise applications company, IFS, has signed a deal with engineering support services company, Babcock, part of the Babcock International Group, to support its Australian operations with the updating of its integrated business system, enabling further efficiencies by reducing duplication and automating processes.

Technology services outfit Fujitsu has won a three year contract worth more than $150 million with the Department of Defence to support 90,000 desktop computers located around Australia.

Long-term IT contracts worth tens of billions of dollars are coming up for renewal.

Australia's largest home-grown software maker Mincom has won another large chunk of Defence's JP-2077 logistics systems and software project, a tri-services supply-chain and financials system costing $1 billion.

The ultra-spooky Defence Signals Directorate responded to about 200 network security incidents a month last year, including some attacks that may have originated from overseas, Defence Minister John Faulkner has revealed.