A major defence contractor is confident the loss of a 1000-page manual on the security upgrade to Parliament House will not be repeated.
The loss of the manual by BAE Systems Australia - a firm on the shortlist to win a $35 billion Navy frigates contract - was raised by Labor in a Senate committee hearing on Monday.
The name of the contractor involved in the incident was kept secret during the hearing but emerged in media reports on Tuesday.
The manual remains missing and parliamentary officials were not told about it until three months after the event.
A BAE Systems Australia spokesperson told AAP the company understood there had been no compromise to the security of Parliament House.
"Following identification of the security incident, we conducted a thorough investigation and are confident that we have the processes and procedures in place to avoid the possibility of an incident of this nature happening in the future," the spokesperson said.
BAE Systems Australia has won a number of contracts dealing with security cameras and digital broadcasting at Parliament House.
The Department of Parliamentary Services told AAP a former Australian Federal Police detective had been hired earlier this year to conduct an inquiry into the incident separate from that initiated by BAE.
Investigations determined that much of the misplaced information was commercially available and any of a sensitive nature was now redundant following significant changes to strengthen security, a departmental spokesman said.
"Most importantly, there has been no compromise to the security of Parliament House," the spokesman said.
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