The Jindalee Operational Radar Network Project / Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit
- Bib ID:
- 320391
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Australia. Parliament. Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit
- Description:
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- [Canberra] : Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, c1998
- xxvi, 134 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0644517484
- Series:
- Australia. Parliament. Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit. Report ; 357.
- Summary:
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Terms of reference: The Committee's inquiry will focus on: (a) the management of the project by the Department of Defence, and (b) the performance of Telsta Corporation Ltd in its capacity as the prime contractor for the JORN project.
- Full contents:
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- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Background to the inquiry
- Conduct of the inquiry
- Structure of the report
- 2. Origins of the Jindalee Operational Radar Network Project
- From Geebung to JORN - 1969 to 1986
- Approved cost to Defence in December 1995 prices
- 3. Selecting the prime contractor
- Circumstances surrounding the selection
- The contenders
- The choice
- Defence's project managers
- 4. The task for Telstra
- Telstra's role
- The prime contract
- Schedule
- The sub-contracts
- GEC-Marconi Systems Pty Ltd
- Lindsay L. Ekert and Associates Pty Ltd
- The technological challenge
- 5. Telstra's management of the JORN Project
- The construct of the prime contract
- Telstra's inexperience in Defence contracting
- Failure to access rlevant expertise
- Lack of senior management commitment
- Inadequate systems engineering skills
- Lack of clear technical baseline
- Management of sub-contractors
- 6. Defence's management of the JORN Project
- Management of the JORN Project
- The prime contract
- Risk management
- Weak contract enforcement and oversight of contractor performance
- JPO human resource project management skills
- Project management in Defence
- 7. Intellectual property
- Introduction
- What is JORN intellectual property?
- JORN IP ownership
- JORN and JORN improvement commercialisation rights
- GEC-Marconi's position regarding commercialisation of JORN IP and JORN improvements
- Management and administration JORN intellectual property
- JORN IP commercialisation activity
- Protection of the Commonwealth's IP interest in any novation of the JORN prime contract
- Current Defence policy and practices regarding IP rights
- Education and training in Defence about intellectual property
- 8. Conclusion
- Appendices.vent
- Notes:
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- "March 1998".
- Includes index.
- Also published as Parliamentary paper (Australia. Parliament) ; 1998, no. 43.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Australia. Parliament. Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit
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