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National Measurement Institute

Portfolio: Industry, Science and Resources

https://www.industry.gov.au/national-measurement-institute

Annual Budget

$50M

2025-26 Budget
Flat vs prior year
Staff

250

Headcount (2024-25)
Major Digital Projects
6

Critical Minerals Production Tax Incentive (CMPTI)

Department of Industry, Science and Resources

Tier 2
DCA: Medium-High
Active

Total Budget

$28.3M

Digital Budget

$22.1M

July 2024June 2027

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

Department of Industry, Science and Resources

Tier 2
DCA: High
Active

Total Budget

$40.2M

Digital Budget

$40.2M

July 2024June 2026

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.

An Australia–United States Partnership in Landsat Next

Geoscience Australia

Tier 3
Active

Total Budget

$207.4M

Digital Budget

$26.7M

July 2024June 2029

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.

An Enduring Commonwealth Function for Radioactive Waste Management

Department of Industry, Science and Resources

Tier 3
Paused (Digital Budget)

Total Budget

$275.2M

Digital Budget

$25M

July 2023June 2028

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.

Questacon Digital Futures Project

Questacon

Tier 3
Active

Total Budget

$7.3M

Digital Budget

$6.3M

April 2023June 2027

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.

Single Business Service

Department of Industry, Science and Resources

Tier 3
Active

Total Budget

$16.4M

Digital Budget

$16.3M

July 2023Ongoing - no end date

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.

Ideas relevant to this department

12 tagged

Reform proposals on YourGov that name this department as a delivery partner — drawn from citizen voice, government strategy, research, international examples and gap analysis.

STRATEGY SUMMARY

Building a better future for all Australians through enabling a productive, resilient and sustainable economy, enriched by science and technology [CP p.8]

PURPOSE

Building a better future for all Australians through enabling a productive, resilient and sustainable economy, enriched by science and technology [CP p.8]

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.8

Strategic priorities

· 17

1

Leveraging our natural and competitive strengths to broaden our industrial base while managing the impacts of structural

Leveraging our natural and competitive strengths to broaden our industrial base while managing the impacts of structural adjustment in the economy.

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.10
2

Diversifying and transforming Australia’s industry through integrating the National Reconstruction Fund’s activity into

Diversifying and transforming Australia’s industry through integrating the National Reconstruction Fund’s activity into the broad industrial policy framework, including developing the Economic Resilience Program through the National Reconstruction Fund (NRF).

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.10
3

Promoting a level playing field by addressing unfair international trade practices that cause injury to Australian indus

Promoting a level playing field by addressing unfair international trade practices that cause injury to Australian industry.

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.10
4

Supporting industrial decarbonisation for long-term policy certainty and maximise the benefits of the global transition

Supporting industrial decarbonisation for long-term policy certainty and maximise the benefits of the global transition to net zero.

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.10
5

Providing advice and targeted funding to support innovative start-ups and small to medium enterprises to commercialise t

Providing advice and targeted funding to support innovative start-ups and small to medium enterprises to commercialise their ideas and grow their business through the Industry Growth Program.

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.10
6

Boosting commercialisation and the use of Australian research and development (R&D) by co-administering the R&D Tax Ince

Boosting commercialisation and the use of Australian research and development (R&D) by co-administering the R&D Tax Incentive.

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.10
7

Delivering grants programs to address barriers to scale and competitiveness for Australian sectors and strengthen domest

Delivering grants programs to address barriers to scale and competitiveness for Australian sectors and strengthen domestic capabilities.

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.10
8

Growing Australia’s critical technology industries and digital capability in areas such as AI, quantum and biotechnology

Growing Australia’s critical technology industries and digital capability in areas such as AI, quantum and biotechnology.

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.10
9

Improving diversity in STEM, including through actions that respond to the Pathway to Diversity in STEM Review.

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.10
10

Ensuring Australia has the measurement science it needs across our economy and society through the expertise of the Nati

Ensuring Australia has the measurement science it needs across our economy and society through the expertise of the National Measurement Institute.

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.10
11

Growing long-term science and technology capabilities through Questacon’s STEM engagement and learning activities and en

Growing long-term science and technology capabilities through Questacon’s STEM engagement and learning activities and ensuring they reach diverse communities, including those in low socio-economic, remote and regional Australia.

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.10
12

Growing national prosperity through a strong resources sector that will continue to bolster government revenue and creat

Growing national prosperity through a strong resources sector that will continue to bolster government revenue and create sustainable and high-value jobs, including in regional and remote communities.

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.12
13

Supporting the sector to contribute to the global transition to net zero by 2050 through reducing emissions and capitali

Supporting the sector to contribute to the global transition to net zero by 2050 through reducing emissions and capitalising on opportunities in a low-emissions economy.

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.12
14

Accelerating the growth of Australia’s critical minerals and processing sector.

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.12
15

Proactively planning for decommissioning and rehabilitation activities through continuing to deliver the decommissioning

Proactively planning for decommissioning and rehabilitation activities through continuing to deliver the decommissioning of the Northern Endeavour facility and Laminaria-Corallina oil fields, and overseeing the rehabilitation of the Ranger and Rum Jungle former uranium mine sites.

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.12
16

Ensuring safe and secure long-term management of Australia’s radioactive waste through the work of the Australian Radioa

Ensuring safe and secure long-term management of Australia’s radioactive waste through the work of the Australian Radioactive Waste Agency (ARWA).

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.12
17

Addressing community expectations on environmental, social and governance practices by creating true partnerships with F

Addressing community expectations on environmental, social and governance practices by creating true partnerships with First Nations Peoples and communities.

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.12

Outcomes

· 4

Outcome 1: Raising awareness of the importance of STEM through the delivery of portfolio initiatives

STEM underpins a thriving scientific and technology-enabled economy. The department’s policies and programs support community-wide STEM engagement. This helps to equip Australians with the skills they need to do the jobs of the future.

KEY ACTIVITIES

  • Maintaining National Measurement Institute (NMI) measurement services through third-party accreditations to meet national and international best practice
  • Increasing compliance with fair measure regulations through National Measurement Institute trader engagement

Outcome 2: Assuring the safety and security of civil space activities through regulation administered by the Australian Space Agency

Effective regulation, as set out in Space (Launches and Returns) Act 2018, aims for a reasonable balance between: making space activities easy to participate in and attractive to innovation and entrepreneurship; ensuring that those activities are safe and present no risk to people or property.

KEY ACTIVITIES

  • Assurance of the safety and security of civil space activities through regulation administered by the Australian Space Agency

Outcome 3: Growing Australia’s critical minerals sector, including by supporting development of downstream processing capacity

Australia has significant reserves of critical minerals and the potential to process them. These minerals are vital to the economic security of global economies. Markets for these minerals and processed products tend to have concentrated global supply chains, leading to price and supply risk for sectors like defence, transport, energy generation and telecommunications.

KEY ACTIVITIES

  • Growing Australia’s critical minerals sector, including by supporting development of downstream processing capacity

Outcome 4: Decommissioning and remediating offshore petroleum and greenhouse gas storage sites

Following the liquidation of the former owner, the Commonwealth is overseeing the decommissioning of the Northern Endeavour facility and remediation of Laminaria-Corallina oil fields.

KEY ACTIVITIES

  • Decommissioning the Northern Endeavour and remediating the Laminaria-Corallina oil fields

Values

· 4

curious

connected

collaborative

caring

Performance measures

· 8

CodeMeasureTarget 2025-26Latest resultStatus

CCE01

Raising awareness of the importance of STEM through the delivery of portfolio initiatives

87% or more Australians (parents, educators and young Australians) to consider STEM skills important when considering employment

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.42

Partially met

Annual Report 2024-25 · p.29
Partially achieved

CCE02

Maintaining National Measurement Institute measurement services through third-party accreditations to meet national and international best practice

global acceptance of over 320 measurement capabilities under the Mutual Recognition Arrangement of the International Committee of Weights and Measures

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.42

Met

Annual Report 2024-25 · p.29
Achieved

CCE03

Increasing compliance with fair measure regulations through National Measurement Institute trader engagement

The follow-up trader audit compliance rate is higher than the initial trader audit compliance rate

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.42

Met

Annual Report 2024-25 · p.29
Achieved

CCE04

Assuring the safety and security of civil space activities through regulation administered by the Australian Space Agency

Zero fatalities, serious injuries or damage to other property as a result of authorised Australian space activities

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.42

Met

Annual Report 2024-25 · p.29
Achieved

CCE05

Increasing opportunities for resources project investment

Reframe any future Commonwealth offshore petroleum exploration acreage releases consistent with the government’s Future Gas Strategy

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.43

Partially met

Annual Report 2024-25 · p.30
Partially achieved

CCE06

Assessing Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 (OPGGS) applications through the National Offshore Petroleum Titles Administrator (NOPTA)

90% of assessment timeframes met

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.43

Partially met

Annual Report 2024-25 · p.30
Partially achieved

CCE07

Decommissioning the Northern Endeavour and remediating the Laminaria-Corallina oil fields

Progress towards decommissioning the Northern Endeavour while ensuring safety and protection of the environment

Corporate Plan 2025 · p.43

Met

Annual Report 2024-25 · p.30
Achieved

CCE08

Decommissioning the Northern Endeavour and remediating the Laminaria-Corallina oil fields

Met

Annual Report 2024-25 · p.30
Achieved

Ideas distilled from this entity's strategy & evidence

· 12

Data & Performance

KPI evidence register with named owners

Create a simple register mapping each KPI to source data, owner, frequency, target, and last result.

Impact: High
Effort: Low
small

diser-annual-report-2021-22.pdf)

Data & Performance

Outcome dashboard linking budget, delivery, and public impact

Build a public-facing outcome dashboard showing spend, outputs, outcomes, and delivery confidence.

Impact: Very High
Effort: High
large

diser-annual-report-2021-22.pdf)

Staff Productivity

Reusable briefing and summary assistant for internal documents

Create controlled templates for summarising reports, submissions, minutes, and ministerial briefs.

Impact: High
Effort: Low
small

diser-annual-report-2021-22.pdf)

Staff Productivity

Department-wide knowledge and briefing platform

Build a secure knowledge platform that lets staff search, summarise, and cite approved departmental material.

Impact: Very High
Effort: High
large

diser-annual-report-2021-22.pdf)

Regulation & Policy

Regulatory burden scan for forms, guidance, and reporting

Identify the top 10 highest-friction reporting obligations and simplify guidance, forms, or evidence requirements.

Impact: High
Effort: Low
small

disr-annual-report-2023-24.pdf)

Regulation & Policy

Adaptive regulation program with live feedback loops

Create an adaptive regulation model using sandboxes, industry data, risk scoring, and regular rule updates.

Impact: Very High
Effort: High
large

disr-annual-report-2023-24.pdf)

Risk & Assurance

Recommendation tracker for audits, reviews, and inquiries

Publish a single internal tracker for audit/review recommendations, owners, due dates, and implementation evidence.

Impact: High
Effort: Low
small

disr-corporate-plan-2023-24.pdf)

Risk & Assurance

Integrated assurance and lessons-learned system

Create an assurance system that connects audit findings, risk registers, delivery reviews, and investment decisions.

Impact: Very High
Effort: High
large

disr-corporate-plan-2023-24.pdf)

Citizen Services

Plain-language service pages and proactive status updates

Rewrite high-volume pages and letters into plain language, add status notifications, and measure contact reduction.

Impact: High
Effort: Low
small

diser-corporate-plan-2021-2022.pdf)

Citizen Services

Single front door for life-event based services

Bundle services around life events so citizens can complete related steps across agencies in one journey.

Impact: Very High
Effort: High
large

diser-corporate-plan-2021-2022.pdf)

Case Processing

Triage queue for stuck or ageing cases

Use existing case data to flag ageing, duplicate, incomplete, or high-risk cases for earlier intervention.

Impact: High
Effort: Low
small

diser-annual-report-2021-22.pdf)

Case Processing

End-to-end case processing redesign

Redesign the case pathway around risk-based triage, reusable evidence, and automated eligibility checks.

Impact: Very High
Effort: High
large

diser-annual-report-2021-22.pdf)

Data & Performance

KPI evidence register with named owners

Create a simple register mapping each KPI to source data, owner, frequency, target, and last result.

Impact: High
Effort: Low
small

diser-annual-report-2021-22.pdf)

Data & Performance

Outcome dashboard linking budget, delivery, and public impact

Build a public-facing outcome dashboard showing spend, outputs, outcomes, and delivery confidence.

Impact: Very High
Effort: High
large

diser-annual-report-2021-22.pdf)

Staff Productivity

Reusable briefing and summary assistant for internal documents

Create controlled templates for summarising reports, submissions, minutes, and ministerial briefs.

Impact: High
Effort: Low
small

diser-annual-report-2021-22.pdf)

Staff Productivity

Department-wide knowledge and briefing platform

Build a secure knowledge platform that lets staff search, summarise, and cite approved departmental material.

Impact: Very High
Effort: High
large

diser-annual-report-2021-22.pdf)

Regulation & Policy

Regulatory burden scan for forms, guidance, and reporting

Identify the top 10 highest-friction reporting obligations and simplify guidance, forms, or evidence requirements.

Impact: High
Effort: Low
small

disr-annual-report-2023-24.pdf)

Regulation & Policy

Adaptive regulation program with live feedback loops

Create an adaptive regulation model using sandboxes, industry data, risk scoring, and regular rule updates.

Impact: Very High
Effort: High
large

disr-annual-report-2023-24.pdf)

Risk & Assurance

Recommendation tracker for audits, reviews, and inquiries

Publish a single internal tracker for audit/review recommendations, owners, due dates, and implementation evidence.

Impact: High
Effort: Low
small

disr-corporate-plan-2023-24.pdf)

Risk & Assurance

Integrated assurance and lessons-learned system

Create an assurance system that connects audit findings, risk registers, delivery reviews, and investment decisions.

Impact: Very High
Effort: High
large

disr-corporate-plan-2023-24.pdf)

Citizen Services

Plain-language service pages and proactive status updates

Rewrite high-volume pages and letters into plain language, add status notifications, and measure contact reduction.

Impact: High
Effort: Low
small

diser-corporate-plan-2021-2022.pdf)

Citizen Services

Single front door for life-event based services

Bundle services around life events so citizens can complete related steps across agencies in one journey.

Impact: Very High
Effort: High
large

diser-corporate-plan-2021-2022.pdf)

Case Processing

Triage queue for stuck or ageing cases

Use existing case data to flag ageing, duplicate, incomplete, or high-risk cases for earlier intervention.

Impact: High
Effort: Low
small

diser-annual-report-2021-22.pdf)

Case Processing

End-to-end case processing redesign

Redesign the case pathway around risk-based triage, reusable evidence, and automated eligibility checks.

Impact: Very High
Effort: High
large

diser-annual-report-2021-22.pdf)

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