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PACIFIC
SHIP ZERO
“The National Shipbuilding Program is an enterprise endeavour, where development of the facilities is just one element.”
Wharf facilities are a vital part of any naval capability, with substantial work on the cards to bring them up to standard around the country.
the ongoing life-cycle management of our capabilities. It will remove many of the uncertainties and risks associated with the introduction of new platforms into service. It will optimise resources and will enable through-life continuous improvement.
“Ship Zero will achieve this through
effective asset management approach,” CDRE Spedding said to ADM.
Lieutenant Commander Craig Shaw, Staff Officer Projects 2 – Navy Infra- structure Plans, describes the Ship Zero concept as an organisational construct of command, sustainment and people.
“Ship Zero will give Navy reliable oversight through- out the Capability Life Cycle. It can’t be viewed as just one element of program delivery. It is a systems pro- gram office (SPO) delivering through-life support, a land- based test site, a production support facility to provide combat system assurance, individual and collective class-specific training in all
competencies, a headquarters to provide FIC management. It will provide all of this, and more,” LCDR Shaw said to ADM.
“Ship Zero reduces the need to deliver training on board ship as crews will be fully prepared for their roles before taking up their posts.
“To support the realisation of Ship Zero, facilities are being developed to fos- ter relationships between Defence organ- isations and with industry. While the aim is to achieve a campus environment, in some cases it may be a federated collection of facilities to support different elements of a capability,” LCDR Shaw said.
Ship Zero OCD
The Ship Zero OCD describes three exem- plars of how the framework can be applied across the entire life cycle. They loosely re- flect the main types of shipbuilding that Navy will need to support over the next 30+ years:
• design and build of a non-complex sur- face vessel with a modest scope for capa- bility growth
• continuous design and build of a non- complex surface vessel with a modest to medium scope for capability im- provement
• continuous design and build of a com- plex vessel with significant scope for ca- pability improvement.
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the coordination, and where appropriate, colocation of administrative, through- life support and capability-specific train- ing organisations. Ship Zero provides the ‘centre of excellence’ for the vessel, submarine or other significant capability, and supports a more efficient and more
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