Federal government warned navy aircrafts would face procurement flaws
16 Jun 2011
Source: Thye Australian
The Federal Government was secretly warned in February that deeply flawed design data was being used to build the Australian navy’s new air warfare destroyers, which would mean serious procurement problems, including delays and cost overruns in the $8 billion project.
The publicly owned Australian Submarine Corporation ignored the warnings from the BAE Systems shipyard at Williamstown in Melbourne, and ordered it to continue building the destroyers using the data.
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