THE federal government has warned Australian shipbuilders it could look overseas for new frigates if they don't lift their game in building three new air warfare destroyers (AWD).
The $8.5 million AWD project is running almost two years late and costs $360 million more than planned, with shipbuilders performing well below international standards.
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann says the project is in serious trouble and getting worse.
A remediation plan - the third for AWD - aims to get it back on track, starting with "the urgent insertion" of an experienced shipbuilding management team into the main contractor, the government-owned ASC.
Construction of ship modules will then be reallocated among three firms doing this work.
"This is a final opportunity to get this right - there's no two ways about it," Senator Cormann told reporters in Canberra on Wednesday.
Defence Minister David Johnston warned there might not be local capacity for future projects if Australian firms' productivity was not acceptable.
"I don't believe the government will support an enterprise that cannot deliver productively," he said.
That includes eight new vessels to replace the navy's Australian-made Anzac frigates.
Under the AWD project, launched in 2007, the navy will field three high-tech warships able to defend vast areas of ocean against aircraft and missile attack.
But costs are over target and the first ship, HMAS Hobart, will be delivered in March 2016, rather than December 2014.
A review by former US Navy secretary Don Winter found a range of problems, including inadequate management and contractor performance - in line with an audit office report and regular reviews by UK consultant First Marine International (FMI).
World benchmark for warship production is 60 man hours a tonne. Hobart comes in at 150 man hours a tonne.
In its review of ASC and subcontractors BAE Systems in Melbourne and Forgacs in Newcastle, FMI found in all but a few measures they were outside performance benchmarks.
Under contract arrangements, cost overruns are met half from Defence and half from final success fees to contractors.
Senator Cormann confirmed the Commonwealth and taxpayers would face some costs.
"We will seek to minimise whatever exposure there is for the government and for the taxpayers," he said.
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