NICTA chairman Neville Stevens said the ACT government's announcement in its recent Budget to provide an extra $6 million over five years to NICTA will make a real difference.
Stevens said funding from the ACT Government's 2007-08 Budget will allow NICTA to consolidate its research.
He said this second round of funding builds on the $20 million the ACT Government has already invested in NICTA and includes an $800,000 annual grant, and up to $400,000 per year in payroll tax waivers over five years.
NICTA is a national research institute with a charter to build Australia's pre-eminent Centre of Excellence for information and communications technology (ICT).