Fifty-seven acquisition and estate projects under the Integrated Investment Program will be considered by government for approval in 2017-18, the budget papers show.
The Portfolio Budget Statements for Defence list 20 projects to be considered by government for first pass approval and 37 for second pass approval in the coming financial year.
Projects slated for first pass approval include LAND 400 Phase 3, which seeks to acquire up to 450 infantry fighting vehicles to replace the Army’s M113AS4 armoured personnel carriers; an AEGIS capability upgrade for the Navy’s forthcoming Air Warfare Destroyers under SEA 4000 Phase 6, likely to be the new Aegis Baseline 9 standard; upgrades for the RAAF’s P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft currently under delivery to the forthcoming Increment 3 standard (which will improve the aircraft’s abilities to search and track submarines and surface ships, as well as improving signals intelligence and networking capabilities); and upgrades to the Navy’s Anzac frigates’ CEAFAR radar under SEA 5010 Phase 1.
First Pass approvals planned for 2017-18
Project Number | Project Title |
JP 2089 Phase 4 | Tactical Information Exchange Domain (Data Links) – Upgrade |
JP 9131 Phase 1 | Defensive Cyberspace Operations (DCO) for the Deployed Environment |
JP 2030 Phase 9 | ADF Joint Command Support Environment – Geospatial and Intelligence Integration |
JP 2085 Phase 2/3W | Explosive Ordnance Warstock – Munitions and Complex GW |
JP 9320 Phase 1 | Joint Force Level Electronic Warfare (JFLEW) – Geolocation |
LAND 555 Phase 6 | Land Force Level Electronic Warfare Signals Intelligence and Vehicles |
SEA 5010 Phase 1 | Active Electronically Scanned Array – Continuous Development Program |
JP 2060 Phase 4 | ADF Deployable Health Knowledge Management System |
ICT 2273 Phase 1 | Maritime Fleet Information Environment (FIE) Modernisation Program |
ICT 2270 Phase 1 | 21st Century Security Vetting |
SEA 1350 Phase 2 | Navy Magnetic Treatment Facility |
LAND 8140 Phase 2 | Deployable Force Infrastructure |
LAND 400 Phase 3 | Land Combat Vehicle System |
LAND 8120 Phase 1 | Engineer Support Platforms Program |
LAND 125 Phase 4 | Integrated Soldier System |
SEA 500 Phase 3 | Navy Tactical Electronic Warfare Remediation |
SEA 4000 Phase 6 | AEGIS Capability Upgrade |
SEA 2400 Phase 1 | Hydrographic Data Collection Capability |
AIR 7000 Phase 2C | Maritime Patrol Aircraft Replacement – P-8 Increment 3 (12 Aircraft) |
ESTATE Z009P | Keswick Barracks Mid Term Refresh |
No fewer than 37 projects are planned for Second Pass (ie final) approval in 2017-18, including a decision between the BAE Systems Hagglunds CV9035 and the Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles’ Boxer combat reconnaissance vehicles under Phase 2 of LAND 400; Phase 1 of the SEA 1180 Offshore Patrol Vessels and SEA 5000 Future Frigrate programs, upgrades for the Tiger ARH under LAND 9000 Phase ARHCAP; weapons and countermeasures for the RAAF’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighters under AIR 6000 Phase 3; and the likely acquisition of the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton under the AIR 7000 Phase 1B Multi-mission Unmanned Aircraft System program.
Second Pass approvals planned for 2017-18
Project Number | Project Title |
LAND 9000 Phase ARHCAP | Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter Capability Assurance Program or replacement (ARH CAP) |
LAND 4502 Phase 1 | Additional Chinook Helicopters (facilities component) |
AIR 555 Phase 1 | AP-3C (EW) Replacement |
AIR 2025 Phase 6 | Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN) |
LAND 1771 Phase 1 | Geospatial Support System for Land Force |
JP 9340 Phase 1 | Integrated Broadcast Service – Interactive radios for AWD,LHD, Northroc, Eastroc, MHQ |
JP 2064 Phase 3 E2 | Geospatial Information, Infrastructure and Services (Evolution 2) |
JP 9711 Phase 1 | Core Simulation Capability |
SEA 3035 Phase 1 | Navy Training Pipeline Simulation Requirements |
ICT 2284 Phase 1 | Enterprise Information Management Acquisition |
ICT 2203 Phase 1 | Mobility and Digitisation |
ICT 2216 Phase 1 | Case Management Systems |
ICT 2221 Phase 1 | Multinational Information Systems (MNIS) |
ICT 2201 Phase 1 | Enterprise Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) |
ICT 2047 | JP 2047 Phase 3 Terrestrial Communications RCI |
LAND 17 Phase 1C.2 | Future Artillery Ammunition |
LAND 8115 Phase 1 | Mortar Ammunition Replacement |
LAND 121 Phase 5B | Overlander – Medium and Heavy Tactical Training Vehicles |
LAND 154 Phase 2 | Joint Counter Improvised Explosive Device Capability |
LAND 400 Phase 2 | Mounted Combat Reconnaissance Capability |
SEA 1180 Phase 1 | Offshore Patrol Vessel |
SEA 5000 Phase 1 | Future Frigate (Design and Construction) |
AIR 7000 Phase 1B | Multi-mission Unmanned Aircraft System |
SEA 1439 Phase 6 | Collins Sonar Capability Assurance |
SEA 1354 Phase 1 | Submarine Escape Rescue & Abandonment Systems |
SEA 1397 Phase 5B | Nulka Missile Decoy Enhancements |
AIR 6000 Phase 3 | Weapons and Countermeasures for Air Combat Capability |
AIR 6013 Phase 1 | Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast capability for Hawk Lead-in Fighter |
AIR 3023 Phase 1 | Enhanced Maritime Strike for the Air Combat Capability |
ESTATE N2238 | Facilities to Support Naval Operations in the North |
ESTATE J0109P | Larrakeyah Barracks Redevelopment, Darwin (include Norforce) |
ESTATE C8923 | Point Wilson Explosive Ordnance Storage & Distribution |
ESTATE P0007 | Airfield Capital Works |
ESTATE N2232 | HMAS Watson Redevelopment |
ESTATE N2241 | Navy Guided Weapon Sustainment System (NGWSS) Remediation & Augmentation of Missile Testing & Maint Facilities |
ESTATE D9541 | DSTO-E Secure Training and Conference Facilities and DSTO-E Restricted Corporate Information Systems Centre |
ESTATE J0105 | Joint Health Command (JHC) Redevelopments (Puckapunyal, Duntroon, Watsonia, Darwin, Enoggera, Albury/Wodonga, Campbell, Larrakeyah Barracks) |
The Portfolio Budget Statements note that the Integrated Investment Program, first released in February 2016 alongside the 2016 Defence White Paper “has been reviewed and updated to reflect the best available information in respect to project planning, delivery reality, cost estimates, phasing, and other important judgments and assumptions critical to the delivery of the capital investment portfolio.”
However the budget does not mention when or if the updated IIP will be publicly released.