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Report 429: Review of the 2010-11 Defence Materiel Organisation Major Projects report

21 May 2012

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Preliminary Pages	(PDF 94KB)

Chapter 1 Introduction	(PDF 68KB)
Background Role of the committee Scope and conduct of the review Report structure

Chapter 2 Major Projects Report 2010-11	(PDF 99KB)
Introduction Major projects included in 2010-11 Risks Cost Scheduling Capability Australian National Audit Office review Major Projects Report Work Plan Guidelines for the Project Data Summary Sheets Major Projects Work Plan 2011-12

Chapter 3 Committee review - Evaluation	(PDF 255KB)
Introduction Presentation of financial data Committee comment Business processes Committee comment Slippage/budget Committee comment Exit criteria Committee comment Guidelines Committee comment Committee comment MPR identified as a priority audit

Dissenting Report—Senator Mark Bishop	(PDF 40KB)

Appendix A – Submissions	(PDF 27KB)

Appendix B – Witnesses	(PDF 30KB)

Appendix C – A Financial Performance Reporting Proposal for the Defence Materiel Organisation Major Projects Report: A response to Recommendation 7 of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit Report 422: Review of the 2009-10 Defence Materiel Organisation Major Projects Report	(PDF 2607KB)

Appendix D – Correspondence from the Mr Ian McPhee, Auditor-General to Mr Robert Oakeshott, Chair, Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit	(PDF 3434KB)

Appendix E – Correspondence from Mr Warren King, Chief Executive Office, Defence Materiel Organisation to Mr Robert Oakeshott, Chair, Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit	(PDF 1568KB)

Appendix F – Department of Defence, ‘Government Response to Report 422: Review of the 2009-10 Defence Materiel Organisation Major Projects Report’	(PDF 722KB)

Appendix G – Proposal to establish exit critera (sic) for projects in the Defence Materiel Organisation Major Projects Report: Additional submission to ‘Government Response to the JCPAA Report 422: Review of the 2009-10 Defence Materiel Organisation Major Projects Report’ of 8 November 2011, regarding Recommendations 3 and 4	(PDF 493KB)