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Originally Posted by Feanor
Or maybe it's politics. Designed to, like you said, send a message that the Aussies are unhappy with the delays.
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exactly, its colour and movement. That does not detract from the fact that the previous Defence Minister "read them (Boeing) the riot act", and that the current Defence Minister is not going to be T boned by legacy problems.
Out of the 11 major projects that are poorly performing, Boeing are responsible for 5 of them.
There is certainly a mood in Govt that the Primes (Tier 1 Vendors) will be held to account and that there will be a decided lack of toleration for contract timeline failures.
We had a situation a few years back when we were going through some grief with fixing some of Kockums problems in the Collins Class - one of the vendors "tried it on" and was called on their bluff. They'll never get work in australia again (unofficially).