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 | |
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