Defence has repeatedly asserted that Industry needs to increase both manpower and skill levels in order to deliver the new Defence Capability Plan (DCP); the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) must also grow, for the same reason.rnAccording to the Mr Warren King, the DMO's General Manager Programs, the industry's 10 prime contractors and 500 or so Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) will need to increase their workforce from today's 29,000 to around 34,000 people over the next five years. At the same time, the DMO will need to grow from 7,500 staff to about 9,000 - Mr King estimates there will be a roughly 20:80 balance in workforce numbers between the DMO and Industry.
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