Cost Performance

The project is currently progressing within the approved budget and the capability is anticipated to be delivered within the approved budget. Some payment milestones have been replanned to reflect the progressive delivery of capability.

Schedule Performance

Thirteen aircraft have been accepted with six aircraft based with the Army's 5th Aviation Regiment in Townsville, three aircraft based with Navy's 808 Squadron in Nowra and four aircraft with the Army Aviation Training Centre in Oakey. These first thirteen aircraft will require an in-service retrofit (at Contractor expense) to bring them up to the full Phase 2/4/6 capability baseline. The first fully compliant Phase 2/4/6 aircraft are due for delivery in the second half of 2011.

The project stopped accepting aircraft in November 2010 as the aircraft did not meet all contractual requirements, this will impact the achievement of capability milestones from 2010  -11 to later financial years. The final aircraft is scheduled to be delivered in mid 2014, however this timeframe may be affected by the current non conformance delays. Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for Navy and Army are also likely to be deferred.

Materiel Capability Performance

Following achievement of In-Service Date (ISD) with agreed partial achievement of the contracted MRH capabilities, there has been significant work by both Industry and the project to define and implement a series of capability block enhancements to bring the MRH90 to contracted standards. This includes a retrofit program, at no additional cost to the Commonwealth, to progressively bring all aircraft up to the contracted standard.