Key performance measures
1.12 When the Department decides to invest in a project, it approves a number of key performance measures to define the required capability of the equipment. Figure 5 shows the status of the key performance measures across the 15 post-main- gate projects.
1.13 In-year, 147 key performance measures across 15 projects are reported as 'Met/ Forecast to be met' by the specified in-service date. An additional 29 across seven projects are reported as 'Forecast to be met with risk'. The Department remains confident that these will be met by the forecast in-service date, as plans are in place to manage the risks.
1.14 Four key performance measures across three projects are reported as 'Not met/ Forecast not to be met'. Two of these are reported for the first time this year:
• Queen Elizabeth Class is forecast to not meet its 'availability' key performance measure, because of the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review decision to only have one carrier in service.12
• The Astute Class programme has not yet demonstrated its 'top speed' key performance measure as trials had not completed by the in-service date as originally planned. Further trials are planned before the submarine is ready for military operations; currently scheduled for December 2012.
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12 Carrier Strike, HC 1092, Parliamentary Session 2010-2012.