P2 reading the tea leaves (silicon chips) -
Further to my hypothsesis
By that man 'Iggins in the Weekend Oz:
The comment about Harfield changing his LinkedIn profile, is truly fascinating...
Couple that with the attempted obfuscation of his responsibilities to the FOI Act...
...gives you an idea of how truly deluded and narcissistic this joker is...
Oh well, least we know where to pin the tail on the OneSKY GWE (Great White Elephant)...
MTF...P2
Further to my hypothsesis
By that man 'Iggins in the Weekend Oz:
Quote:Air safety alarm as ANAO criticises OneSKY rollout
Airservices chief executive Jason Harfield.
Ean Higgins
The Australian
12:00AM April 15, 2017
https://plus.google.com/116716661262546957732
@EanHiggins
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Airline passengers and military pilots will have to endure antiquated air traffic control systems for years longer than expected, while cost overruns have led to plans for a $1.5 billion state-of-the-art network being scaled back, aviation insiders have revealed.
The associations representing airline pilots and air traffic controllers have expressed deep concerns at the lack of tangible progress and questionable tendering decisions exposed this week by the Australian National Audit Office in its report on the OneSKY national air traffic control system.
The ANAO report found OneSKY, a joint project of Airservices Australia and the Department of Defence to integrate their separate air traffic control systems into a new custom-designed network, was running behind schedule, might not have gone with the tenderer offering best value for money, and may not be affordable.
In February last year, Airservices chief executive Jason Harfield said “the new system, when completed in 2021, will allow us to provide operational efficiency improvements for future growth.”
However, Airservices spokeswoman Sarah Fulton this week told The Weekend Australian: “OneSKY will be implemented in phases starting in 2018 as scheduled, with full implementation expected in 2023.”
Pilots and air traffic controllers have warned this two-year delay in completion means they will have to put up with ageing systems that are far less efficient than their modern North American counterparts, and hardware getting so old it is difficult to find spare parts.
The warnings come as The Weekend Australian can reveal Mr Harfield has moved to rewrite the record regarding his previous role as the Airservices executive in charge of OneSKY, altering his LinkedIn profile to excise his declaration he was accountable for the “leadership and acquisition” of the project to “I had the accountability for (its) delivery”.
Airservices, which runs the nation’s civilian air traffic control network and airport fire and rescue services, is owned by the federal government but funded by levies on the aviation industry.
The OneSKY project has been dogged by claims of cosy dealings and excessive expenditure on consultants, with senators across the political spectrum describing the transactions as appearing “dodgy”, “incestuous” or having conflict of interest “all over this”.
An ANAO investigation commissioned by a Senate committee into Airservices’ dealings with an obscure Canberra-based organisation with overseas military links, the International Centre for Complex Project Management, produced a report in August saying Airservices had paid consulting fees far above the going rate and “was ineffective in providing value-for-money outcomes”.
The second ANAO investigation that reported this week looked at the tendering of the principal management contract for OneSKY, won by European aerospace group Thales. While it found some aspects of the project went well, it made several criticisms.
The initial tendering was 18 months late, it found, and “contracts are unlikely to be signed prior to mid-2017, at least 40 months after tender evaluation commenced”. The selection of Thales might not offer the “best value for money”, the audit report said, because “adjustments made to tendered prices when evaluating tenders against the cost criterion were not conducted in a robust and transparent manner”.
“Those adjustments meant the tenderer that submitted the highest acquisition and support prices was assessed to offer the lowest cost solution,” the report found.
“It is also not clearly evident the successful tender is affordable in the context of the funding available to Airservices and Defence.”
A senior Airservices insider said because the organisation had agreed the contribution of Defence would be capped at $255 million, and the estimated cost had blown out by hundreds of millions of dollars, planners were scaling back the project’s scope.
Mr Harfield declined a request for an interview. He has not said why he changed his LinkedIn profile but Ms Fulton said he did so when he became chief executive.
She said OneSKY “is not an off-the-shelf product” and “we will not apologise for taking the time to ensure we get it right. We are still negotiating … to ensure we reach a value for money outcome.”
The comment about Harfield changing his LinkedIn profile, is truly fascinating...
Quote:Executive General Manager, Future Service Delivery
Airservices Australia
July 2013 – August 2015 (2 years 2 months)
In this senior executive role I had the accountability for the delivery of Airservices’ next generation services and harmonised Australian Air Traffic Management system with the Department of Defence.
As a key member of the Airservices Executive Team, I am enabling the delivery of a world leading harmonised national Air Traffic Management system to ensure, through a holistic transformation program, Australian aviation remains at the forefront of technologically advanced air traffic management services.
This role also has the responsibility of the Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) for the purposes of managing the portfolio and program complexity associated with delivery of the new Air Traffic Management system, and the associated benefits and services.
Couple that with the attempted obfuscation of his responsibilities to the FOI Act...
Quote:On FOI requests & word weasel confections -
In an effort to track down the documents released under the ABC's FOI request, I made a visit to the ASA FOI Disclosure Log. Unfortunately if you refer to the FOI Dislosure Log webpage - see
HERE - you will discover that the last entry was on the 28 August 2015 and in fact the last update ( website administrative visit) was on 30 September 2015.
'Passing strange' that the ASA FOI requests appeared to have either dried up or ASA were disclosing less at around about the same time that Harfwit took over from Margaret Staib in the Acting CEO role...
...gives you an idea of how truly deluded and narcissistic this joker is...
Oh well, least we know where to pin the tail on the OneSKY GWE (Great White Elephant)...
MTF...P2