South Australia - The Defence State

ESTABLISHED AND EXPERIENCED INDUSTRY

South Australia hosts a broad range of major defence electronics companies including - BAE Systems Australia, Raytheon Australia, Saab Systems, Lockheed Martin, LADS Corporation, CSC, EDS, QinetiQ and Ultra Electronics to name a few. 

The state also has a high concentration of SMEs with specialised skills in the electronics sector. These companies work with defence primes on significant electronics and combat data systems projects, in collaboration with DSTO, the largest defence electronics laboratory in the southern hemisphere.

South Australian firms lead the way in systems integration, network centric warfare, airborne bathymetry, geospatial mapping and C4ISREW.

LEADING-EDGE RESEARCH AND TRAINING CAPABILITIES

Our education and training sector, government and industry work together to ensure the long term supply of skilled technicians, systems integrators and engineers.

South Australia's world-class universities deliver a broad range of defence systems engineering programs. For example, the University of South Australia offers a defence employer-reserved Master of Engineering (Military Systems Integration) program that was set up in cooperation with ASC, BAE Systems Australia and Saab Systems.

The University of South Australia has partnered with the University of Adelaide to establish the Defence Systems Innovation Centre. This new defence research and education centre will focus on the major challenge of systems integration for defence, delivering leading edge capability and real outcomes to the Australian defence community.