Programme office set up to address Collins woes

摘要

An Australian Submarine Programme Office is to be established in March to improve the availability of Australia's six breakdown-prone Collins-class submarines, Greg Combet, the minister for defence personnel, materiel and science, announced on 12 February.rnThe Adelaide-based office will operate as an integrated product team grouping representatives of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), the Defence Materiel Organisation (DM0) and the submarine fleet's maintainer, ASC Pty Ltd. Combet described the establishment of the office as "a vital step towards achieving the submarine availability required by government.