Defence Investment Agency needs to do more than reshuffle the staff deck to succeed, say observers

Defence Investment Agency CEO Doug Guzman says the 85 full-time staff have been transferred from other federal departments. But bringing people with the same mentality about procurement won't drive change, says former MP John McKay.
Secretary of State for Defence Procurement Stephen Fuhr says he is 'politically accountable' to the prime minister as the political head of new Defence Investment Agency.

A bureaucratic shuffle to staff the new Defence Investment Agency won’t fix the government’s procurement woes, say a former MP and senior public servant after the agency’s head told MPs this week that the new organization is transferring public servants from multiple d...

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