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Development of Defence Policy and Procedures
Client Australian Government Department of Defence
Disciplines Policy and Procedures Development; Benchmarking; Program and Project Management.
Situation The Department of Defence requires the development of policy, procedure and doctrine to support the conduct of Defence operations and activities. These documents provide Defence personnel and external agencies guidance and information on the employment of Defence capability within the context of the contemporary strategic environment. The publications must be current, informative, engaging and meet Defence design, content and format requirements.
Challenge Develop policy and procedures.
Response The O2C publication team consists of all the necessary staff to support the development of publications and documents. This includes access to experienced authors, professional editorial, graphical design and formatting staff. A document manager coordinates the development of the document. Each publication undergoes the following developmental process:
  • Conduct of national and international literature review
  • Provision of initial brief establishing benchmark for new policy
  • Facilitate the input from relevant stakeholders - for some publications this includes a range of government agencies
  • Author a draft for consideration by stakeholders
  • Conduct two major workshops with key stakeholders to determine content, structure and graphical design
  • Coordinate the input from major stakeholders and sub-authors
  • Author final drafts in the correct format, structure and with the approved content
Outcome A selection of the publications provided is as follows:
  • ADDP 3.1-Offensive Support
  • ADFP 3.1.1-Offensive Support Procedures
  • ADDP 3.5-Electronic Warfare
  • ADDP 3.13-Information Operations
  • ADFP 3.13.1-Information Operations Procedures
  • ADDP 3.14-Targeting
  • ADFP 3.14.1-Battle Damage Assessment
  • ADFP 3.14.2-Targeting Procedures
  • LWD 0-1-3 Military Police
  • LWD 2-2-Intelligence Activities
  • LWP-G 3-6-2-Engineer Intelligence
  • LWP-MP 3-8-1-Close Personal Protection