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``Chapter Seven: Reform of
Defence
7.1 The more complex future strategic environment Australia faces will place
greater demands on Defence, particularly its ability to adapt to change,
to innovate and to integrate reform into its core business processes.
7.2 The Government’s plans to deliver a more capable, agile and potent
future force involve bringing strategy, capability, and resources back
into alignment through this White Paper and the Integrated Investment
Program, and by reforming the Defence organisation to deliver these
plans through implementation of the First Principles Review.
The First Principles Review – The Government’s
reform program
7.3 In August 2014, the Government commissioned the First Principles
Review to ensure that Defence is appropriately structured and organised
to meet the challenges of the future.
7.4 The challenges Defence will face over the period to 2035 require a
highly professional, well-governed and agile organisation that can
respond to changing environments, seize opportunities and manage
increasing strategic, political, cultural and technological complexity.
7.5 The Review directly addressed the need for a unified Defence
organisation, including a joint force that is more consistently linked
to its strategy. In the past, reform has been difficult because the
organisation has not been unified in the way it conducts business.
Despite the reforms that Defence has undertaken over the last few
decades, the First Principles Review found:
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