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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Collins submarines have reached their performance targets

Cillins class submarineThe recent article in The Australian "Two subs out of action for six years" (24/6) suggests that ASC has missed deadlines for the maintenance of HMAS Collins and the Collins sustainment program in general. This is incorrect.

ASC is working with our submarine enterprise partners, the navy, the Defence Material Organisation and the Finance Department to achieve international benchmarks for fleet availability and reliability as identified by British specialist John Coles.

We are safely doing this by driving productivity initiatives in our production, engineering, planning and supply chain capability.

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