- Reaction score
- 1,087
- Points
- 1,160
Been hearing about this for months now and speculation was the Thales would be getting the contract by just piggy backing onto what they have set up for AOPS and underbidding them. I was talking to my SNC ships manger and he knew nothing about it, sounds like the PM jumped the gun deliberately.Wow, that's a massive change, and a month is a very short time to transition. There is a huge number of SNC personnel with a massive amount of relevant situational awareness on what is happening on the ships, repair plans etc that may get lost in the turnover.
The AJISS ISSC has lagged because it takes a while to hire people and get them up to speed, so will be interesting to see what happens. Plus all the warehousing, contracting, maintenance records etc.
I'm not an SNC fan, but the actual people involved in MWAV do a good job supporting the ships in the context of what we ask them to do and associated restrctions they have, and I think all the ship managers are retired sailors that have some skin in the game and care about the ship's condition from the perspective of the people that have to actually sail them.
Note to self; really good reason to avoid a posting to the Non Combatant desk.
Its certainly good that there is budget money for the class now as before it was coming out of CPF monies as I understand it. Worked with ISSC for many years and I found it way better than Cape Scott in getting the ship out the door, that's because like you said most are ex Navy. I would imagine many will find themselves working for Thales and the same contractors will be doing the same PM on the ships.
This is good because they can do the ground work on setting up a service provider if two MCDV's get stationed in Europe for permanent OP REASSURANCE presence.