King me

This article (subscription) in The Australian is worth a read.

In it are huge quotes from Warren King that we should delay the submarine replacement decision by a year.

“It seems improbable to me that nine months is sufficient to fully analyse all of the issues such as capability, cost, sustainment,” Mr King said on the sidelines of the Royal Australian Navy’s Seapower Conference in Sydney.

“Before you make your final decision, you need to know more. I would say another 12 months is needed. You would have a much better understanding of what the final design will be and what capabilities it will have and about how to maximise Australian industry content.”

There is an argument for that if we (as taxpayers) could believe that the risk assessment used to pick a winner was solid and reliable.

For so many years, King was responsible for a lot of missed opportunities in the Entrenched Defence Bureaucracy to do the right thing with risk and project management.

What did we pay him to do? Well there is this from 2004.






Very sad. Eleven years ago, King was hired to fix things up in regard to a project management capability we could be proud of.

That did not happen.


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