Supplying and Supporting Force 2030:
Defence Policy for Australian Industry
Author: Robert Wylie
Volume 5, Number 2 (Winter 2009), pp. 117-126.
Abstract
The White Paper has reaffirmed 2007 plans to link defence industry policy to enhanced defence strategic planning. This promising initiative risks being blunted by over-emphasis on off-the-shelf solutions to military capability requirements and by preoccupation with the need to intervene if the market fails to sustain strategically important local industry capabilities. As part of the Strategic Reform Program, strategic planners should become more accountable for judging industry capability priorities and setting defence industry policy objectives, while an increasingly autonomous Defence Materiel Organisation should be accountable for implementing them.
About the Author
Bob Wylie worked for 25 years as a policy advisor in the Australian public service. He now draws on this experience in teaching at the School of Business, Australian Defence Force Academy and in researching defence technological innovation. r.wylie@adfa.edu.au.
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