Interesting. Does anyone have access to the full article?
Sea Platforms
Australian senate report slams 'politicised' nature of Future Submarine programme
Julian Kerr, Sydney - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
02 July 2015
Japan's involvement in the acquisition process to determine the designer and constructor of Australia's Future Submarine is based on political imperatives rather than merit and the current approach should be scrapped, an Australian parliamentary inquiry has found.
In a majority finding in a report on naval shipbuilding handed down by the Senate Economics References Committee on 30 June, the committee said that the competitive evaluation process selected by government fell short of a "truly rigorous procurement".
"Evidence given during budget estimates in June confirmed that the competitive evaluation process was not designed to deliver three competitive contract options; would not produce accurate costs and build schedules; nor would the resulting designs be of a 'mature' nature," the report said.