{"id":8506,"date":"2023-05-22T05:19:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T05:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidn.org.au\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2023-05-22T05:19:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T05:19:07","slug":"update-on-projects-of-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidn.sparkweb.cloud\/update-on-projects-of-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Projects of Concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4284\" src=\"https:\/\/aidn.sparkweb.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1684359007267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 align=\"center\"><strong><u>UPDATE ON PROJECTS OF CONCERN<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Government has listed a new defence project as a Project of Concern: the Satellite Ground Station \u2013 East and Wideband SATCOM Network Management System.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While infrastructure for the project has been delivered, including three large ground antennae, it is facing ongoing schedule delays due to other technical challenges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The project is designed to transform and improve new and existing Defence wideband ground stations and deployed systems across Australia to meet the increasing need for greater satellite communications capacity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It will deliver a new satellite ground station and an integrated Wideband SATCOM Network Management System to Defence, harmonising operations and improving situational awareness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This listing will increase the momentum between Defence and Northrop Grumman Australia to remediate the Wideband SATCOM Network Management system component of the project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Government is strengthening and revitalising Defence\u2019s Projects of Concern process, bringing senior stakeholders from government and industry together on a regular basis to remediate listed projects.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><b>Quotes attributable to Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Pat Conroy MP:<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new listing demonstrates the Albanese Government\u2019s commitment to remediating underperforming projects, in order to deliver the capabilities urgently needed by the Australian Defence Force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to working closely with Northrop Grumman Australia to get this project back on track and deliver the Wideband SATCOM Network Management System.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE ON PROJECTS OF CONCERN &nbsp; The Australian Government has listed a new defence project as a Project of Concern: the Satellite Ground Station \u2013 East and Wideband SATCOM Network Management System. &nbsp; While infrastructure for the project has been delivered, including three large ground antennae, it is facing ongoing schedule delays due to other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidn.sparkweb.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidn.sparkweb.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidn.sparkweb.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidn.sparkweb.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidn.sparkweb.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidn.sparkweb.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidn.sparkweb.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidn.sparkweb.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidn.sparkweb.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidn.sparkweb.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}