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Review of the Defence Annual Report 2012-13

The Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade authorised the Defence Sub-Committee to review the Department of Defence Annual Report 2012-2013.

For this review of the Defence Annual Report (DAR), the Defence Sub-Committee has resolved to inquire into the following topics:

• Submarine capability
Status of implementation of recommendations from the Coles Report.
• Defence Materiel Organisation and Capability Development Group
Review of Capability Development Improvement Program initiatives and Test and Evaluation support.
• Asset management
Management of land and facilities.
Major capital facilities program.
• Defence Cooperation Program
Status of the program, particularly the Pacific Patrol Boat program.
• Air combat capability
The independent review of the New Air Combat Capability and associated reporting.

The Committee invites interested persons and organisations to make submissions addressing the terms of reference by Thursday, 1 May 2014. Please refer to our brochure called preparing a submission for more information.

In order to facilitate electronic publishing of submissions, the Committee would prefer them to be emailed to jscfadt@aph.gov.au in Microsoft Word^® or Portable Document Format (PDF).

Submissions

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