With so many Australian SME’s already selling to overseas defence customers but not to the ADF, how do we turn this around to recognise that Australian businesses are good enough for our military?
@Marcus_ASPI reflects on the challenges of tracking data on defence exports, recognising that Defence Industry is much broader than simply hardware. Software and services are a significant part of our exports.
As a veteran-owned, family business, SYPAQ understands the challenges a Defence career places on our families. Not only are we committed to the employment of veterans, we are proud to employ family members of currently serving and past members of the ADF
Flexibility and Agility - We must achieve speed of capability that is superior to the speed of the threat, but in a cost effective manner, adopting a continuous capability development approach - delivering innovation, bringing capability into the hands of the warfighter
Performance - We must do better. Project and program management will be key to this. As will the creation of an organisational culture needed to deliver in a challenging strategic environment
Great to see Deupty Secretary of CASG, Chris Deeble, sharing the 3 core areas of focus in his first few months in the role…
Performance
Flexibility and Agility
Industry as a Fundamental Input to Capability FIC)
Chief of Joint Capabilities spoke of the depths of partnership across Defence and Industry to meet the rapidly evolving needs of modern warfare, including asymmetric cyber capability advantage
Secretary Moriarty expects that the Defence Strategic Review will lead to a refresh of the Defence Integrated Investment Plan and lead to an actionable implementation plan
Resilient supply chains and stocks of high end war fighting equipment is a priority. Defence industry needs to be engaged asap, to understand what can be achieved in what timeframes
At today’s #AIDN Defence Industry Policy Symposium, Secretary, Dept of Defence, Greg Moriarty discussed the importance of not only innovative, advanced technologies in supporting Ukraine, but the importance of sovereign resilience and applying innovative approaches to warfare
Thank you to the members of the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade for visiting SYPAQ today to view our Corvo family of autonomous systems, including the CorvoX small UAS, currently under consideration for Land 129 Phase 4B.
Watch this brief interview as our Chief Engineer, Ross Osborne, explains the importance of our collaboration with @AustralianArmy whilst showcasing our Corvo UAS solutions. Namely, CorvoX and PPDS – both of which are exemplars of this collaboration.
#AusArmy#CAS2022
Such an honour to be the headline sponsor at the @austdefence #WomenInDefence Awards.
To the awesome finalists; you’re all winners in our eyes!
#WIDA2022
This image takes pride of place in the boardroom (aptly named ‘Boomerang’) of our Fishermans Bend facility. It serves as a reminder of Australia’s rich heritage in sovereign aerospace design and manufacture, and inspires us everyday to meet the ADF SICP challenge.