AUS: Projects of Concern Summit

19 November 2012 Pacific Sentinel

Minister for Defence Materiel Jason Clare today begins a two-day summit involving meetings with senior Defence officials and CEOs of companies that have projects on the Projects of Concern list.

In February 2011 Mr Clare committed to holding biannual face-to-face meetings with industry and Defence.

The first round of meetings was held in February 2011, the second round in September 2011, followed by a third round in April 2012.

“The purpose of these meetings is simple – to make sure there is focus from the top of Government, Defence and industry to remediate these projects,” Mr Clare said.

“It ensures that the senior Defence and industry people responsible for these projects are doing everything necessary to remediate them.

“The Projects of Concern list was cut in half from 12 projects to six in late 2011. This demonstrates that the Projects of Concern process works.

“It brings the right people together and focuses them on getting these projects back on track and off the list.”

On 29 June 2011, Mr Clare and Minister for Defence Stephen Smith announced a range of reforms to strengthen the Projects of Concern system.

These reforms included:

• the establishment of a more formal process for adding projects to the list;
• the establishment of a formal process for removing projects from the list;
• the development of agreed remediation plans, including formal milestones for the removal of a project from the list; and
• increased Ministerial involvement and oversight of the process.
• Since the Projects of Concern process began in 2008, 19 projects have been listed as Projects of Concern. Since then, 13 of those have been removed with a total value of over $10 billion – 11 due to remediation and two due to cancellation.

The current Projects of Concern list is below.

Projects of Concern List:

Project	Description	Date Added
CN10	Collins Class Submarines	Nov 2008
AIR5077/3	Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control Aircraft	Jan 2008
JP2070/2&3	Lightweight torpedo replacement	Jan 2008
AIR5402	Multi-role Tanker Transport aircraft – Air to Air Refuelling Capability	Oct 2010
AIR5276/8B	Electronic Support Measures upgrade for AP-3C Orion aircraft	Oct 2010
AIR9000/2,4&6	Multi-Role Helicopter	Nov 2011

 

Projects removed from Projects of Concern list:

Project	Description	Date Added
SEA1411	Sea Sprite Helicopter (Project cancelled)	Mar 2008
AIR87	Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (Remediated)	Apr 2008
LAND106	M-113 Armoured Personnel Carrier Upgrade (Remediated)	May 2008
JP2088/1A	SF Air Drop Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat Trailers (Remediated)	Sep 2009
SEA1390/2.1	Guided Missile FFG Upgrade (Remediated)	Jan 2010
JP2048/1A	LCM2000 Watercraft for Amphibious Ships (Project cancelled)	Feb 2011
JP2043/3A	High Frequency Communications Modernisation (Remediated)	Jun 2011
AIR5333	Air Defence Command and Control System ‘Vigilare’(Remediated)	Jun 2011
SEA1448/2B	ANZAC-class Anti-Ship Missile Defence (ASMD) (Remediated)	Nov 2011
LAND121/3B	Medium and heavy vehicles, trailers and modules(remediated)	Dec 2011
JP129/2	Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Remediated)	Dec 2011
AIR5418/1	Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) (Remediated)	Dec 2011
AIR5416/2	Project  ‘Echidna’ (Scope reduced)	Jul 2010

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