Unfortunately, it seems that standard strategy these days for any semblance of 'procurement reform', is to simply buy fewer and fewer of the existing Program's systems.
That's not making anything 'leaner' and not a strategic way of reforming anything. Such practice will only add more weakness to an already thinning Defence posture and create wider gaps in capability per dollar spent.
Listening to Tony Abbott cite the international arms companies/DMO line verbatim was more than a bit distressing. It would seem that whichever "Pardee" is in power in Canberra, for the money makers in Defence, it remains business as usual.
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Pretty good assessment of the situation, Eric.
Unfortunately, it seems that standard strategy these days for any semblance of 'procurement reform', is to simply buy fewer and fewer of the existing Program's systems.
That's not making anything 'leaner' and not a strategic way of reforming anything. Such practice will only add more weakness to an already thinning Defence posture and create wider gaps in capability per dollar spent.
Listening to Tony Abbott cite the international arms companies/DMO line verbatim was more than a bit distressing. It would seem that whichever "Pardee" is in power in Canberra, for the money makers in Defence, it remains business as usual.
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