Prime contractor: Multiple purchase contracts with Australian and overseas munitions suppliers.

This Project seeks to acquire, over the period 2005-08, a range of explosive ordnance items to increase reserve stock holdings.

The Project’s mandate is to procure quantities of a number of explosive ordnance items comprising anti-armour, medium/field artillery, mortar, and Navy projectile ammunition as well as demolition stores, pyrotechnics and bombs to remediate depleted reserve stock levels.

A significant number of deliveries have been received from contracts placed in 2006-07 and 2007-08 and it is expected that most of the remaining items (other than full delivery of Excalibur Precision Guided Munitions) will be delivered by the end of 2008. For the 2008-09 financial year, the major focus will be on the acquisition of the 155, Excalibur Precision Guided Munitions and associated equipment under the US FMS program.