National ICT Australia

NICTA

Type	Company limited by guarantee
Industry	Information and Communications Technology Research
Fate	Merged with CSIRO
Founded	2002
Headquarters	Sydney, Australia
Key people	N/A
Number of employees	300
Website	nicta.com.au

NICTA (previously known as National ICT Australia Ltd) was Australia's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence. The term "Centre of Excellence" is common marketing terminology used by some Australian government organisations for titles of science research groups. NICTA's role is to pursue potentially economically significant ICT related research for the Australian economy.

NICTA was structured around groups focused primarily on pure research and the implementation of those ideas within business teams. NICTA merged with CSIRO in July 2016.

In 2002, NICTA won a competitive selection process to be established as Australia's national centre of excellence in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) research, under an Australian Government policy initiative to promote science and innovation called Backing Australia's Ability. The creation of the centre was intended to address a previously identified weakness in long-term strategic ICT research in Australia. NICTA was officially opened on 27 February 2003.

The founding members of NICTA were the University of New South Wales, Australian National University, the NSW Government, and the ACT Government. NICTA later acquired other university and government partners. In January 2003, The University of Sydney became a partner. In July 2004, the Victorian Government and The University of Melbourne became partners. In January 2005, the Queensland Government, the University of Queensland, Griffith University, and the Queensland University of Technology became partners. The University of Melbourne and the Victorian Government became members in May 2011.