Glossary

ASDEFCON

Australian DEFence CONtracting suite of contracting templates

Capability Manager

Service Chiefs for Army, Navy, Air Force or the Vice Chief of the Defence Force for Joint Projects. For certain projects the Deputy Secretary Intelligence and Security and the Chief Information officer might also be nominated as Capability Managers. The role of the Capability Manager is to raise, train and sustain in-service capabilities through the coordination of Fundamental Inputs to Capability.

Contract Master Schedule

A time and resource based schedule for executing work under the contract.

DEFPUR101

DEFence PURchasing (101) contracting template used pre the formation of the DMO.

Final Operational Capability

The point in time at which the final subset of a capability system that can be operationally employed is realised.

First Pass Approval

The process that gives Government the opportunity to narrow the alternatives being examined by Defence to meet an agreed capability gap. First Pass approval allocates funds from the Capital Investment Program to enable the options that Government endorses to be investigated in further detail, with an emphasis on detailed cost and risk analysis.

Function and Performance Specification

A specification that expresses an operational requirement in function and performance terms.

Initial Operational Capability

A point in time at which the first subset of a capability system that can be operationally deployed is realised.

Integrated Product Team

An integrated team of subject matters experts from stakeholder groups.

Kinnaird

The Defence Procurement Review 2003 chaired by Malcolm Kinnaird

Materiel Acquisition Agreement

An agreement between Defence and the DMO which states in concise terms what services and products the DMO (as supplier) will deliver, for how much and when.

Off-the Shelf

A product that is available for purchase, which has been delivered to another military or Government body or commercial enterprise.

Operational Concept Document

The primary reference for determining fitness-for-purpose of the desired capability to be developed.

Project Executive Summary and Status Outline

A summarisation of the project's status, challenges it faces and its performance.

Project Management Stakeholder Group

A group representing the key stakeholders in a project that meets periodically to review the status of the project, advise senior executives of issues and provide guidance to the Project Manager.

Project Maturity Score

A means of measuring the maturity against benchmark measures of a project at defined milestones.

Second Pass

The final milestone in the requirements phase at which point Government endorses a specific capability solution and approves funding for the acquisition phase.

Service Customer

The Defence Group that is the end user of products and services delivered by DMO.

Test Concept Document

The basis for DMOs development of the Test and Evaluation Master Plan for a project, and is the highest level document that considers test and evaluation requirements within the capability systems' life-cycle.

Verification and Validation

Validation is the proof through evaluation of objective evidence that the specified intended end use of a product or system is accomplished in an intended environment. Validation is confirmation by examination and provision of objective evidence that specified requirements to which a product or service, or aggregation of products and services, is built, coded, assembled and provided have been fulfilled.