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                     76 BUDGET OVERVIEW
FIGURE 2 – FIRST AND SECOND PASS APPROVALS IN 2020 TILL OCT 7, 2020
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 PROJECT
  PASS
 DATE ANNOUNCED BY GOVERNMENT
PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED VALUE
 Arafura Class Offshore Patrol Vessel Transition Plan
    Other Pass
   01-May-20
  $350 million
 Advanced Maritime Strike for the Air Combat Capability
  First Pass
 01-Jul-20
$800 million
 Advanced Maritime Strike for the Air Combat Capability
 Other Pass*
  01-Jul-20
  Borneo Barracks Development
  Other Pass
   01-Jul-20
  Value not announced
 Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN)
   Other Pass
  01-Jul-20
 Value not announced
 Oakey Mid Term Refresh
  Second Pass
 01-Jul-20
Value not announced
 General John Baker Complex Tranche One
 Second Pass
  03-Jul-20
 $31 million
 Australian Defence SATCOM System
 First Pass
  13-Jul-20
 Value not announced
 Maritime Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Continuous Development
  Other Pass
   04-Aug-20
  $1.3 billion
 Defence Economic Stimulus Package**
   Other Pass
  26-Aug-20
 $1 billion
 Naval Shipbuilding College***
  Other Pass
 26-Aug-20
Value not announced
 Defence Innovation Hub***
  Other Pass
   11-Sep-20
  $32 million
 ADF Deployable Health
  Second Pass
 24-Sep-20
$370 million
 Standardisation of Protected Mobility Vehicle (PMV) Fleet***
 Second Pass
  29-Sep-20
 $94 million
 Henderson Maritime Precinct***
 Other Pass
  05-Oct-20
 $9 million
  *Note (1) – Advanced Maritime Strike other pass value is part of First Pass total.
Note (2) – ‘Other Pass’ submissions include advice to Government on current and future capability; and Government approval for early access to Integrated Investment Program funding. This early funding is used to complete critical capability development work and risk reduction activities ahead of seeking First and/or Second Pass approval from Government.
**Note (3) - Further details of individual initiatives under the Defence Economic Stimulus Package will be approved and announced shortly. *** Note (4) – These items form part of the Defence Economic Stimulus Package.
 around 62,700 over the Forward Estimates. Across 2020-21 and the Forward Estimates, the Defence APS workforce is expected to grow to around 16,450.
Details on how many contractors the Department em- ploys is also hard to come by, with the matter being raised numerous times in Senate Estimates over the past few years. It seems that not even that body is able to pin down an accurate head count.
OPERATIONS
Once again, it’s clear that the ADF is called upon to con- duct a range of tasks around the world. From peacekeeping and disaster relief efforts, to nation building and training operations, the ADF has roughly 2,300 deployed personnel at any given time but this rose sharply over the past year with more operations on Australian soil.
The figures listed below account for expenditure in the financial year ahead, noting that the spending profile for operations this coming financial year is up 20.2 per cent from the previous year.
Most of the hard work on the operations front has been much closer to home with civil tasks in the wake of bush- fires and COVID support to the state and territory gov- ernments. This is a trend that the government expects to continue into the longer term with more Reservists being mobilised and a greater focus on humanitarian aid and di- saster relief (HADR) response capabilities, also available through the Pacific Step Up program and Defence Coop- eration programs in the region.
All figures below are for listed operations. No listed figure means the cost is absorbed by Defence as part of their normal funding measures that operate on a no win/no loss approach.
ACCORDION – Provide support to Operations HIGHROAD, OKRA, MANITOU and other ADF activities from within the Gulf States. $221.1 million
ARGOS – Contribute to the international effort to enforce UN Security Council resolutions on North Korea.
ASLAN – Contribute to the UN Mission in South Sudan. AUGURY – ADF support to the Whole of Government Counter Terrorism mission, this includes all operations overseas as well as the domestic response framework.
BUSHFIRE ASSIST 2019-2020 – ADF Support to national disaster relief efforts.
CHARTER – Contribute to the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus.
COVID-19 ASSIST – ADF support to the planning and execution of the Whole of Government response to COVID-19 pandemic. GATEWAY – Conduct northern Indian Ocean and South Chi- na Sea maritime surveillance patrols.
HIGHROAD – Ongoing contribution to the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan supporting Afghanistan’s security, develop- ment and governance. $85.3 million
LINESMEN – ADF support to demilitarisation observation and reporting under the Inter- Korean Comprehensive Military Agreement.
MANITOU – Contribute to maritime security in the Middle East Region (MER) including the Arabian Gulf, Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. $66.3 million MAZURKA – Contribute to the Multinational Force and Ob- servers in Sinai.
OKRA – Contribute to the Coalition to defeat Daesh in Iraq and Syria. $215 million
ORENDA – Contribute to the UN Multidimensional Integrat- ed Stabilization Mission in Mali.
 











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