ASC will have to fill two leadership roles very soon. Its former Managing Director Greg Tunny left following a dispute with Australian weapons purchaser, Defence Materiel Organisation, and its Chairman John Prescott is to retire at the end of June after nine years.
Australian Minister for Defence Materiel, Greg Combet, said that now ASC is to remain in government ownership, the new head would have to look at the way maintenance and sustainment processes were managed.
"We want to make sure those processes are as efficient and effective as possible," Mr Combet told the Australian Financial Review.
ASC is expected to win a large share of an upcoming project to build new submarines. These vessels, which were at the forefront of the Australian Government's white paper, will commence building towards the end of the next decade, in a scheme worth over US$27 billion.
ASC, formerly the Australian Submarine Corporation, is the government-owned naval shipbuilder which constructed the Royal Australian Navy's Collins-class submarines. ASC will also build three new air warfare destroyers for the Navy.
