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DEAL:
DGNBM Steve Wearn and CDRE Jack Steer from the RNZN sign
the agreement.
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Photo:
LSPH Yuri Ramsey
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By
CMDR Perry Weir
The RAN’s fleet activity management and reporting tools named
FAMT (Fleet Activity Management Tool) and MONICAR (Management
of Naval Integrated Capability Assessment Reports), have been
provided to the RNZN under an international Department to Department
agreement.
The RNZN investigated options for the replacement or upgrade of
its operational capability reporting tools throughout 2004, and
settled on FAMT and MONICAR.
The RNZN felt that the RAN systems met most of the RNZN’s requirements
for capability management and reporting and could be cost-effectively
adapted to the New Zealand context.
FAMT and MONICAR are part of the of Navy Capability Costing System
(NCCS), being designed to support fleet activity planning, resource
management and governance requirements. The NCCS aims to enable
the delivery of timely and quality management information from
a single point of reference in a consistent and accessible manner.
These tools provide an integrated and consistent framework for
planning, costing and reporting on fleet unit activities. They
also allow Navy personnel wider access to information such as
where ships are visiting, what operations they are on, and personnel
and operational metrics, as well as specific costing information
on a wide range of Navy activities.
Director-General of Navy Business Management Steve Wearn said
that he was pleased that the RNZN saw that the tools met their
requirements, and that this raised opportunities for combined
enhancement of the tools.
Maritime Component Joint Operations Command Commander of Operations
CMDR Lee Goddard said that the tools make the development of the
Fleet Activity Schedule a more transparent process and will aid
in providing more certainty to Ship’s companies.
“FAMT provides operational planners with a tool that maintains
a disciplined process in constructing the FAS. The results of
the planning effort are immediately available to planning staff
and we can see the impact of decisions.”
