11 - Operations and Sustainment
TRANSFORMING MILITARY AEROSPACE SUSTAINMENT
D. Holmes¹, A. Goodwin¹, R. Vodicka¹; ¹DSTG, Australia
‘The RAAF are now looking at how not just to modernise the force ; but to transform it.’ AVM (Retired) John Blackburn.rnPlan Jericho calls for a fundamental transformation in the way we acquire and sustain capability. Defence’s future sustainment capabilities will exist in an environment characterized by highly dynamic technical, social, economic and environmental forces. This will require people, infrastructure and processes to adapt and innovate in an on-going manner at unprecedented rates. Frameworks, processes, models and tools must be established that facilitate rapid sense-making of the current situation, allow reasoning about future states and enable evidence based decision making. This paper will identify the key strategic drivers and trends that will fundamentally re-shape the way defence delivers it sustainment capabilities. rn