DEFCO405C Conduct operator level maintenance in a Defence environment

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for DEFCO405C ended on 20 October 2015 — 10 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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New enrolments are not permitted from 22 October 2016 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
DEF12 — Defence Training Package
Currency period ends
20 October 2015
Latest release
Release 2 · 24 January 2013 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
DEFCMM004 equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. DEFCO405CSuperseded — equivalentConduct operator level maintenance in a Defence environment
  2. equivalent
  3. DEFCMM004CurrentConduct operator level maintenance in a Defence environment

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • DEFCO405CDEFCMM004equivalent21 October 2015

    Modifications have been made to Assessment conditions.

Is DEFCO405C on your scope?

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Where DEFCO405C is used

training.gov.au lists DEFCO405C inside 4 training products, none of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for DEFCO405C in that product.

Products no longer current 4 listed

The register still records DEFCO405C inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypeDEFCO405C is
DEF20912Certificate II in Communications OperationsQualificationcore
DEF31012Certificate III in Maritime OperationsQualificationelective
DEF32212Certificate III in Sensor OperationsQualificationelective
DEF32712Certificate III in Intelligence OperationsQualificationelective

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