Australie : l'intégration civile militaire au point mort

Un article de "The Australian" annonce que cette intégration est bloquée par les militaires qui en avaient été les promoteurs ! Les mêmes causes produisant souvent les mêmes effets c'est certainement une affaire à suivre.

"An ambitious plan to save taxpayers more than $300million by ending the wasteful separation of the nation's civil and military air traffic management systems has stalled.

Defence has backed away from any rapid implementation of the plan to create a unified national system, declaring it wants to move only at "a measured pace, cognisant of the requirements to maintain Defence capability".

This is despite Defence claims, made in a 2002 document signed by the current Australian Defence Force chief Angus Houston, that "Australia simply cannot justify, sustain or afford to continue operating two almost identical Air Traffic Management systems".

The Defence go-slow has angered civil air traffic control manager Airservices Australia, which wants to push ahead with the unification plan, arguing it would produce savings of more than $300 million.

Airservices spokesman Richard Dudley told The Australian: "Airservices and Defence have both been discussing an improved, national air traffic management system for a decade, but Defence concerns over loss of its own 'capability', difficulties with funding models and no real incentives for change have precluded real progress.

"The existence of two independent air traffic control and airspace management systems driven by different objectives, priorities and cultures hampers the delivery of a better product for Australia. Improving the inter-operability has the potential to produce savings in the order of $300 million plus."

Australia developed separate civil and military air traffic management systems because it was considered necessary to meet the separate specific requirements of civil and military flying.

A 2002 study, obtained by The Australian, found that having separate systems was no longer essential and that the duplication was a waste of taxpayers' money.

In 2005, the Air Force and Airservices set up a program called Genesis to integrate military air traffic control into the civil system.

Defence now says Genesis failed to deliver viable reforms and although it remains committed in theory to a unified national system, major obstacles remain. It is understood to believe that integration proposals have not paid sufficient attention to its need to have tactical and strategic air traffic control in a time of crisis."