When purchasing giga-dollar weapons systems, the Entrenched Defence Bureaucracy is guilty of substituting proper analysis with unconfirmed claims by marketeers according to this article.
Misplaced confidence in the claims of defence industry "marketeers" contributed to expensive past blunders on major contracts - some worth billions of dollars - a Senate Committee inquiry into Defence acquisitions was told yesterday.
Also, the DMO boss claim of "old projects" needs definition. Many "old" projects are not even in active service yet and are a disaster waiting to happen. Add to that: our tax dollars pay people working in Defence (some even wearing the uniform) to actively market troubled military programs. Projects like the F-35 program for Australia (somehow missing from the Project of Concern List even though money has been put forward for two test and training aircraft), the Air Warfare Destroyer funnies and certainly the dream to build 12 uber-submarines at home are pushed by marketeers that don't identify proper risks. Maybe that $214M for a sub study will be useful as opposed to a "can-do" attitude for Operation: BARKING MAD.
Service chiefs are of no help either. The RAAF boss is guilty of the same behaviour.
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