defenceWeb Written by Guy Martin - 520 Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) has raised a number of concerns over the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC), including outdated IT systems, poor reporting and End User Certificates. In a committee report dated 26 February, the JSCD said one of the challenges raised by both the Committee and the defence industry, is that the current IT system utilised by the NCACC to process applications appears to be outdated, not able to desegregate information in a holistic and user-friendly manner, as well as causing delays in processing applications. “The NCACC acknowledges this shortcoming and indicated that they hope to migrate to a new system by early 2021. Armscor has also indicated that they can assist the Directorate for Conventional Arms Control (DCAC) to migrate to a more user-friendly and updated system.”