JP 2077 takes off

MAJ Matt Shepherd, Heino Nowatzky, BRIG David McGahey, LTCOL Brewis Atkinson, Katrina Yacoubian, Simone Pearce, Peter Dunn, LTCOL Andrew Monro and Rao Ayyalasomayajula are all smiles at the JP 2077 launch.

The ship’s company of HMAS Tarakan recently took time out from their busy schedule to celebrate the ship’s 30th anniversary of commissioning.

On Friday August 1 Peter Dunn, the Head Management Information Systems Division DMO officially launched the Programme Management Office for Joint Project 2077 (JP2077), Improved Logistics Information Systems (ILIS).

JP2077 Programme Manager and Director General Materiel Systems Branch (DGMATSYS) BRIG David McGahey described JP2077 as a project that will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of ADO’s logistics environment over the next seven years.

When implemented it will:

• Improve logistics capabilities in the areas of supply, movement and transport, materiel engineering and maintenance and deployability and responsiveness
• Improve standardisation of business processes across the three Services
• Rationalise the systems environment resulting in lower complexity, operating costs and improved responsiveness to change
• Provide a logistics business process and system architecture that meets the needs of the ADF and the ADO and is consistent with Defence Information Architecture.

These objectives will be met by developing an ILIS environment for the ADO and delivered as a series of ILIS upgrades.

The change will be implemented by moving from the current logistics system environment to implementing an environment that encapsulates the ADO’s desired logistics process and system architectures.

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