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Part 6: Abbreviations and acronyms

APS: Australian Public Service
APSC: Australian Public Service Commission
AusIndustry: Program delivery division within the department helping new and existing Australian businesses innovate, grow and succeed
AUSKEY: Single pass login for business to access a number of government online services, such as the Standard Business Reporting website
Commercialisation Australia: Specialist program within the department acting as primary source of assistance for commercialisation activities
Data Ginger Group: Governance committee tasked with marshalling program data holdings for the purposes of effective administration, monitoring and evaluation of department programs
DEEWR: Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
DIICCSRTE: Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education
DIISR: Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
EL: Executive Level 1 and 2 staff
Enterprise Connect: Departmental division responsible for policies and programs aimed at improving innovation, productivity, global competitiveness and market access
Executive Board: Secretary, Associate Secretary and deputy secretaries
ICT: Information and Communication Technology
Middle Management: Supervisory staff, typically Executive Level 2
MoG: Machinery of Government change
QPERT: Quarterly Performance Executive Reporting Tool. Internal report measuring the department and divisional KPIs against benchmarks with respect to finance, stakeholders, compliance and people management
SES: Senior Executive Service
Skills Connect: Departmental skills division supporting industry and employers to implement skills strategies
SOSR: Australian Public Service Commissioner's State of the Service Report
VANguard: ICT program providing a suite of online authentication services to secure business-to-government and government-to-government transactions
VET: Vocational Education and Training

Last reviewed:

29 March 2018