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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.