Potential Defence Logistics Opportunities

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The Australian Department of Defence is planning a major upgrade to its logistics information system with Brisbane based technology company MINCOM, it was announced today. Initial expenditure will be allocated from within the overall Defence Capability Plan budget of $100-150 million. The project aims to upgrade Defence's logistics system to provide new capabilities and improve information management and business processes. Defence's logistics information system is used to manage and track assets as they move through the logistics system from ordering to use within Defence.

The current logistics management system is a complex system which has developed in an ad hoc way over about 20 years, made up of more than 200 individual systems which track materials such as clothing, spare parts and other stores. The core logistics system known as the Standard Defence Supply System (SDSS) is installed at more than 1000 business units within Defence, handles some 600,000 transactions a year and has about 8,000 regular users. The system now requires an upgrade and improvements to keep up with both advancements in technology and the needs of Defence.

The upgrade could offer possible joint venture projects for US based corporations with skill synergies that sit comfortably with MINCOM.

Other aspects of the project include the development of an enhanced deployable logistics capability, an improved financials package, which would connect more effectively to Defence's financial information system, and an integrated In-transit Visibility System, which will allow Defence to track the movement of stores and components across the country and at overseas locations.

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David

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