Review | Major System/ Platform Variant | Original Planned | Current Planned | Achieved/ Forecast | Variance (Months) |
System Requirements | Completion of all Software Specification Reviews | Aug 00 | Aug 00 | May 01 | 9 |
Preliminary Design | Completion of all Preliminary Design Reviews | Oct 00 | Oct 00 | May 01 | 7 |
Critical Design | Completion of all Critical Design Reviews (Critical) | Apr 01 | Nov 06 | Apr 07 | 72 |
Variance Explanations | Software development and design was delayed due to Australian Defence Industry (now Thales Australia) repatriating the Combat System Design Authority role from Lockheed Martin in early 2001 and implementing the Australian Distributed Architecture Combat System. Thales then elected, as allowed by the Prime Contract, to deliver the contracted capability in three software baselines for technical risk mitigation. Critical Design Review to Baseline Build 2 software completed in December 2006. Critical Design Review for Baseline Build 3 software completed in April 2007. | ||||