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Friday, August 23, 2013

No progress on SAAF base security upgrade project after three breaches this year


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Three publicly known security breaches at SA Air Force (SAAF) bases to date this year and a named and in progress project on the Strategic Capital Acquisition Master Plan (SCAMP) to upgrade protection of air force facilities does not appear to hold any water when it comes to the workings of the Portfolio Committee on Defence.

Project Vagrant was one of the SCAMP items apparently on the agenda for last month’s meeting of the Portfolio Committee on Defence at South African National Defence Force (SANDF) headquarters in Pretoria.

This meeting was postponed without a reason. Other items on the agenda, defenceWeb is informed, included Project Assegai (the A-Darter air-to-air missile), Project Drummer (Oryx helicopter upgrade), Project Hoeyfster (the new generation infantry fighting vehicle) and Project Vistula (operational supply support system).

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