yet more delays!
Fraser says that Australian Aerospace is closely cooperating with the DMO to try and overcome the delays, which are likely to add six months to service delivery for the Army.
The prime contractor “has some initiatives on offer that we will take to try to restore the rate of effort to what it should be in order to catch up. But at this point in time we are behind schedule for army.”
The first Army operational capability was scheduled to comprise a deployable troop of four aircraft by April 2011.
“At the moment we are looking at a September or October [2011] timeframe. We will take as much action as we can to recover that, but that is where it currently sits, due to the low rate of effort.”