Defence equipment boss quits amid changes to buying powers (Dan Oakes, Sydney Morning Herald)
"DMO is a very thankless job and there will always be negative headlines. But, having said that, he certainly moved it in the direction of increased professionalism, has upskilled the staff in contract and project management, and the increased focus on off-the-shelf procurement has seen some really good outcomes," Dr Davies said.
Huh?
Defence purchasing chief quits (Sabra Lane, ABC)
Senator Johnston says he is concerned an experienced figure like Dr Gumley is leaving the DMO.
"I don't think it's good at all that a person with that level of corporate knowledge that we would want to leverage off into the future for the benefit of all of us, suddenly decides he's had enough and is leaving," he said.
I guess showing up for work and collecting over 700K per year is a kind of “experience” and “corporate knowledge”.
It is true that some of the poor defence products like the Collins-class sub existed before Gumley took the job. It is also true that Gumley came from the ASC.
It is also true (from looking at the project of concern list) that he didn’t take strong enough leadership action to clean up the mess. Some of the troubled projects (like the Air Warfare Destroyer) were signed off on during his watch.
If he was active in anything it was to promote institutional groupthink: everyone else is wrong except the DMO. The blame-shifting function in Microsoft Office seems to have been used in quantity.
One less obstacle to progress is gone. Let us see if the government can take advantage of this opportunity.
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As an idea of his incompetence/duplicity you only have to look at his performance in recent Senate enquiries.
His successor is not much better
Gobsmacked, there's an old truism that says that when it comes to choosing between conspiracy and incompetence, incompetence wins every time.
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