Gary Humphries (ACT, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Materiel) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 November 2011:

(1) Of the $445.7 million in funding to support Australian Defence industry as noted in the Government's Defence Industry Policy in June 2010 (Building Defence Capability: A Policy for a Smarter and More Agile Defence Industry Base): what is the full planned breakdown for distribution of those monies by program and year.

(2) Of the $445.7 million:

(a) how much has been so far approved for distribution under each program and cumulatively;

(b) how much has been actually distributed, under each program and cumulatively; and

(c) to which contractors or entities has the funding been awarded, including how much, when, under which program and for what.

Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question:

(1) and (2):

Annex A , B, C and D – are available from the Senate Table Office .

They contain...

Summary of budget for Programs and Initiatives funded under the 2010 Defence Industry Policy Statement (DIPS) as at 23 November 2011

The 2010 Defence Industry Policy Statement (DIPS) for Australian industry, titled Building Defence capability: A policy for a smarter and more agile Defence industry base, announced support of more than AUD $445.7 million out to 2018-19. This support is provided for a range of programs and initiatives that industry can access to improve their competitiveness, their capacity for innovation, their ability to enter export markets and the skills of their workforce.

The Annex shows a summary of the original budget for programs and initiatives launched in the 2010 DIPS, the planned budget as at November 2011, current commitments and expenditure to date, for the initiatives and programs announced on Friday 25 June 2010, by the then Minister for Defence Materiel and Science (The Hon Greg Combet). All figures are expressed as out turned dollars.

Additional funding of AUD $15.79 million has been injected into the Capability Technology Demonstrator program, and re-phasing of the Priority Industry Capability Innovation Program to ensure grants allocations in the final year of the program can be met has required AUD $2.37 million to be re-phased beyond financial year 2018-19. Other minor adjustments total a reduction of AUD $1.05 million.

The 2010 Defence Industry Policy Statement (DIPS) lists a number of additional programs, being the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) Business Access Offices (BAO), the Defence Industry Innovation Board (DIIB) and the Defence Industry Skills Taskforce (DIST) that are funding neutral in the Policy Statement and continue to be delivered within the standard annual DMO operating budget. The Rapid Prototyping Development and Evaluation Program and the Capability Development Advisory Forum are managed and delivered by Capability Development Group (CDG) and are also cost neutral in the Policy; also being delivered within the annual CDG allocated operating budget.