Defence Capability Plan ignores established risk assessment methods

The new Australian Defence Minister, Mr. Johnston, has a lot of work to do.

The giga-dollar F-35 program is--by the definition of Australian government methods (PDF at bottom of link)--an extreme risk project.

Here is what the Defence Capability Plan for 2012 has in relation to F-35 risk: a lot of dead air. I have helped the graphic out by putting red where it belongs: trending way off the chart.


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Then there is another blank area for project list. The NACC et el, don't know what they don't know or just refuse to represent the Australian taxpayer: the project is red.


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This is the risk of the F-35 program not delivering on the promise for Australia. Not surprising when you consider Howard, Hill and Houston jumped in on the program with no credible analysis.


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There is no justification for keeping the F-35 off of the DMO Project of Concern List.

It qualifies.

Currently, 2 Australian F-35s are on the production line.

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-Time's Battleland - 5 Part series on F-35 procurement - 2013 
-Summary of Air Power Australia F-35 points
-Aviation Week (ARES blog) F-35 posts (2007 to present)
-U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) F-35 reports
-F-35 JSF: Cold War Anachronism Without a Mission
-History of F-35 Production Cuts
-Looking at the three Japan contenders (maneuverability)
-How the Canadian DND misleads the public about the F-35
-Value of STOVL F-35B over-hyped
-Cuckoo in the nest--U.S. DOD DOT&E F-35 report is out
-6 Feb 2012 Letter from SASC to DOD boss Panetta questioning the decision to lift probation on the F-35B STOVL.
-USAFs F-35 procurement plan is not believable
-December 2011 Australia/Canada Brief
-F-35 Key Performance Perimeters (KPP) and Feb 2012 CRS report
-F-35 DOD Select Acquisition Report (SAR) FY2012
-Release of F-35 2012 test report card shows continued waste on a dud program
-Australian Defence answers serious F-35 project concerns with "so what?"
-Land of the Lost (production cut history update March 2013)
-Outgoing LM F-35 program boss admits to flawed weight assumptions (March 2013)