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CHAPTER SEVEN: REFORM OF DEFENCE
Chief will be empowered to ensure new projects proceed on the basis of
relevance and importance to the joint force.
7.21 A strong internal contestability function will be built and led by the
Deputy Secretary Strategic Policy and Intelligence with responsibility
for strategic, scope, technical and cost contestability. Strong internal
contestability will ensure that Defence expenditure is aligned with the
Strategic Defence Objectives.
7.22 The Associate Secretary’s role as the integrator of Defence’s corporate
enterprise functions and as the central authority to deliver strategic
centre-led enterprise planning and performance monitoring will be
strengthened. Making the right decisions means getting the right
information to decision-makers in a timely way. The Associate Secretary
of Defence will be empowered to strengthen enterprise-wide information
management. Stronger information management outcomes will help
ensure Defence is better managed.
7.23 Defence will improve the quality of its strategy and policy advice
to Government. Defence’s policy and intelligence functions will
be consolidated under the Deputy Secretary Strategic Policy and
Intelligence.
SECTION THREE REFORM, RESOURCING & IMPLEMENTATION
Capability development life cycle
7.24 Under the plans set out in this Defence White Paper, Defence will
implement a substantial force modernisation program, which will bring
major organisational and cultural challenges. This modernisation will
introduce new capabilities that will carry within them the requirement
for new ways of working, particularly as Defence integrates complex
and globally networked systems into the joint force. The reforms
being implemented under the First Principles Review are essential to
delivering these plans.