The biggest changes to the defence bureaucracy since the mid-1970s aim to tackle budget and timeline blowouts, the government says
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The Albanese has announced a major overhaul of the defence department, aimed at tackling budget and timelines blowouts, on the same day it confirmed Australia was tracking a Chinese navy flotilla in the Philippine Sea.
In the biggest changes to the defence bureaucracy in Australia since the mid-1970s, Labor will merge three agencies – the capability acquisition and sustainment group, the guided weapons and explosive ordinance group and the naval shipbuilding and sustainment group.