After an adverse Australian National Audit Report (ANAO) in February 2010, Geoscience Australia (GA) has been allocated $2.9 million from the Federal Budget 2010-11’s Business-as-Usual (BAU) fund.  This allocation is more than double GA's total contract value for data storage in 2008-09. 

The 2007-08 financial year saw GA contract $1.87...