Defence Industry Development Strategy – Procurement Reform

Introduction

The Strategy identifies areas of reform needed to 'deliver a more capable, innovative, resilient and competitive sovereign defence industrial base'.¹ Among other things, a number of changes to Defence procurement and contracting have been identified to achieve this aim.

This article briefly summarises the key aspects arising from the Strategy in respect of defence procurement and contracting.

Revisions to the Australian Standard for Defence Contracting (ASDEFCON)

The Strategy intends to make progressive reforms to the ASDEFCON template contracting suite, to create a more efficient and effective contracting process between industry and Defence.

To do so, the ASDEFCON framework will be revised and simplified to make it more efficient and cost effective.² The key intended changes are: