In-year schedule performance

2.18  In 2009-10 there was a total of 39 months slippage in the forecast achievement of FOC for the 15 projects that were included in last year's report. This represents a two per cent increase in the schedule timeframe for this group of projects.

2.19  Figure 9 shows that the in-year schedule slippage involved the following projects:

●  FFG Upgrade (operational test and evaluation extended to align with test assets and facilities availability);

●  Bushranger Vehicles (component delivery delays);

●  Armidales (outstanding defects - with 'workarounds' in place);

●  Air to Air Refuel (increased scope and complexity of the aircraft conversion); and

●  Hornet Upgrade (slower than planned aircraft delivery schedule).

2.20  In contrast, the HF Modernisation project's forecast FOC schedule decreased in-year because of greater schedule clarity on the mobile platforms' upgrades.

Figure 9

In-year (2009-10) schedule changes to achieving FOC (percentage increase/decrease in schedule)

Source:  2009-10 MPR.

Note:  The ANAO review indicates that 13 of the 21 MPR projects with FOC dates did not record changes to the relevant FOC dates during the year. In the case of three new projects included in the 2009-10 MPR, the PDSSs do not require projects to outline their schedule status as 30 June 2009 and so do not enable the ANAO to establish whether in-year schedule changes had occurred in 2009-10.