Between October 2009 and February 2010, Australia had no sub capability

Another DMO-ASC-Entrenched Defence Bureaucracy victory...

I am hopeful that the change we have seen in performance around the Collins can be translated across to the Air Warfare Destroyer program. The most encouraging piece from his report, which was also the most troubling, was that, between October 2009 and February 2010, we were effectively without any submarine capability – against a three boat availability indices we had 0% availability. On the two boat availability indices it was about 7% availability. We were in a very dire and dark place! Against this in 2007 the two boat availability was 90%.

Something was going seriously wrong and the previous Government did very little in its first three years but wring its hands in despair.

It wasn’t until July 2011 and after four years of questioning and badgering from the Opposition that the previous government did something constructive to critically examine this issue and appointed John Coles and his team to look at what was now a very troubled Collins program.

We are heavily indebted to John Coles and his team for their outstanding work and to the men and women of the submarine enterprise for their truly remarkable efforts.

Through the Collins Transformation Program guided by the recommendations of Mr Coles and his team, our two submarine availability in December 2012 grew back to 60% – today it is back at the 2007 level of 90%.

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