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| Air
Commodore Garry Bates AM RAAF
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| Air Commodore Garry Bates, AM, (Retd), a
graduate of the USAF Air War
College and the US Department of Defense Senior International Resource Management
Program, served with the
RAAF for 35 years as an aeronautical engineer, technical intelligence analyst, resource
manager and capital acquisition
project manager. As the Officer Commanding 501 Wing in 1995-96 he was the editor of the F-111 Life-of-Type Support Study. In subsequent postings he was the Director-General of Air Force Resource Management and Programs and headed the Air Force’s DRP implementation planning. He was the Director-General Aerospace Combat Systems in DAO/DMO, where he chaired the project boards for the F-111 Block Upgrade Program, F/A-18 Hornet Upgrade, AP-3C Orion Update and other key air combat capability projects. He was also the Inaugural Acquisition Member of the Air 6000 Project Board which was later renamed the New Air Combat Capability (NACC) project. |
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