Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

October 2020 — June 2026

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.

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

July 2024 — June 2028

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.

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

July 2023 — June 2026

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.

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

July 2023 — June 2026

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.

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

July 2025 — July 2028

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’.

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

April 2025 — June 2028

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.