Scenario
You have been appointed by the Australian federal government to provide a critique of the conduct of the $80B Attack Class submarine program. So as not to arouse political suspicion you are to base your advice exclusively on data contained in the source materials from the Defence Connect website – an article dated 20 January 2020 titled, “$80bn future submarine program runs aground, again”. You are to treat the submarine contract as a continuing effort with no prospect of being halted and restarted in another form. Remember you are producing a consulting report, not a research report. All recommendations must be based exclusively on details contained in the article nominated above. As the tendering and competitive evaluation process is deemed to have been handled well it is specifically excluded from the scope of your submission.
The scope of the task:
Please read the press report:
https://www.defenceconnect.com.au/maritime-antisub/5422-80-billion-future-submarine-program-runs-aground-again
You have been bought into the submarine project to advise the Australian government on the following four questions:
2. Given that the project takes place on opposite sides of the world (Adelaide, Australia & France) how would you optimize monitoring and control of the project to improve the likelihood of it meeting its objectives.