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Senior enterprise committees and their roles

Defence’s enterprise decision-making and advisory committees are the primary mechanisms for providing direction and assuring that strategy, capability and resources are aligned across the Defence enterprise. The tiered committee structure, as shown in Figure 5.1, supports aggregated reporting, decision-making at the lowest level and mechanisms for escalation and de-escalation as required.

The Defence enterprise committee governance framework was developed to address recommendations from the First Principles Review. Further development of appropriate tools, guidance and systems is expected to provide more effective management of workflow through enterprise committees and improve our achievement of enterprise-level governance, reform, risk and reporting requirements.

Figure 5.1: Defence enterprise committee structure and roles, indicating incumbent Chairs as at
30 June 2020

Tier 1

Defence Committee

Chair: Secretary

Incumbent: Mr Greg Moriarty

Defence Audit and Risk Committee

Chair: External

Incumbent: Ms Jennifer Clark

Tier 2

Enterprise Business Committee

Chair: Associate Secretary

Incumbent: Ms Katherine Jones

Chiefs of Services Committee

Chair: Chief of the Defence Force

Incumbent: General Angus Campbell

Strategic Policy Committee

Chair: Secretary

Incumbent: Mr Greg Moriarty

Investment Committee

Chair: Vice Chief of the Defence Force

Incumbent: Vice Admiral David Johnston

Tier 3

Defence People Committee

Chair: Deputy Secretary Defence People

Incumbent: Ms Justine Greig

Defence Finance and Resourcing Committee

Chair: Chief Finance Officer

Incumbent: Mr Steven Groves

Defence Security Committee

Chair: Deputy Secretary Estate and Infrastructure

Incumbent: Mr Stephen Grzeskowiak

Defence Joint Warfare Committee

Chair: Vice Chief of the Defence Force

Incumbent: Vice Admiral David Johnston

Defence Communications and Information Systems Committee

Chair: Chief Information Officer

Incumbent: Mr Stephen Pearson