National ICT Australia
NICTA was a national ICT research center in Australia. NICTA was founded in 2002 under the name National ICT Australia as a non-profit organization under the ICT Center of Excellence Program of the Australian Federal Government.
NICTA had offices in Sydney (2 institutes and headquarters), Canberra , Melbourne and Brisbane . It had around 700 employees and 250 doctoral students.
In July 2016, NICTA was subordinated to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) as a separate research unit and renamed Data61.