Project Management
Capability OverviewCodarra has built its strong reputation on the quality and breadth of its Project Management expertise. Our project management specialists range from Project Directors capable of driving multiple client project to success, senior project managers that have managed complex projects up to one hundred million dollars value, junior and mid range project managers and specialist project support staff. No matter how large or complex your project is, Codarra's specialists will be capable of supporting your needs.
Our project management specialists have either achieved or are undergoing Australian Institute of Project Management accreditation.
Headquarters Joint Operations CommandThe HQ JOC Project is a major capital equipment project delivering a complex capability. The aim of this project is to integrate the agencies responsible for planning and executing military operations in a state-of-the-art headquarters equipped with world's best practice command and control systems (together, referred to as the "Headquarters Joint Operations Command" or "HQJOC"). This project, announced by the Prime Minister in October 2001, will give the Chief of the Defence Force a much more effective means of commanding the operational capability of the Australian Defence Force.
The new HQJOC will be a Commonwealth-owned, high-tech and state-of-the-art facility that brings together existing headquarters, agencies and staff in one place, enabling more effective command and control of the Australian Defence Force.
A number of separate communication and information systems are required to support the staff in the facility. These systems in the main, will be extant, and will be connected to the Defence Wide Area Communications Network by way of dedicated fibre optic cables together with access to fibre optic cables provided through arrangements with commercial carriers. There will be little reuse of communications and information systems hardware that is located at existing facilities.
The individual communications and information systems are required to have a high level of availability depending on how critical they are to HQJOC functions. This leads to an expectation of less than two hours unplanned downtime per year (99.98% availability) for the external communication systems and services on the main operational networks (Defence Secret Network and the Top Secret Networks) and less than 24 hours unplanned downtime per year for all other systems (99.7% availability).
Defence has contracted Codarra Advanced Systems as the C4I Systems Project Management and Systems Engineering Contractor - essentially providing the Defence Project office function for C4I Systems for the HQJOC.
The C4I systems component of HQJOC refers to the command, control, communications, computing and intelligence systems that will be contained in the Headquarters and is comprised of:
Headquarters Joint Operational Command (HQJOC (T))The project has successfully achieved the objective of providing the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) capability required for the transitional Headquarters Joint Operational Command (HQJOC (T)). The creation of that Headquarters was COSC tasked and VCDF directed for the establishment of a new ADF higher command and control (C2) transitional arrangement. This ICT Project has enabled the transitional organisation to be housed in new and existing buildings in Canberra and existing buildings in Sydney so that during the transitional period the new HQJOC can be established, tested and refined. The importance of this project to the C2 of the ADF and the need for the HQJOC(T) to be established, tested and refined in a very short timeframe, implied a need for the project to be more flexible and acceptable to requirements changes and subsequent Exception Reports than would normally be the case. The project closely involved the C4I Team for HQJOC Bungendore and passed on lessons learned which will benefit the ICT provisioning for the Bungendore location.
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