News Archive
Defence State Media Releases - 2008
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008
$20M BOOST FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE INDUSTRY
Greg Combet, Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Procurement, and Mike Rann, Premier of South Australia, today outlined a significant program of investment in South Australia to help build skills within the Australian defence industry sector.
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008
AIR WARFARE DESTROYER SAILING AHEAD
Greg Combet, Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Procurement, today welcomed the Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) Alliance signing of a further three contracts for elements of the ships’ combat system.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
INVESTMENT IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA DEFENCE INDUSTRY SKILLS
The Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP, and the Federal Member for Port Adelaide, Mark Butler MP, today announced further details of the Government’s $61 million defence industry skills package.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
SOUTH AUSTRALIA INDUSTRY SCHOOLS PATHWAY PROGRAM
The Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP, and the Federal Member for Wakefield, Nick Champion MP, today announced further details of the Government’s $61 million defence industry skills package.
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
TECHPORT AUSTRALIA POWERS AHEAD WITH OPENING OF SKILLS CENTRE
Premier Mike Rann says today’s opening of the $5 million Maritime Skills Centre is the first major milestone in the development of the Government’s $300 million new state-of-the-art shipbuilding facility at Outer Harbor.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
AIR WARFARE DESTROYER SYSTEMS CENTRE DEEDS SIGNED
The Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP, announced today that the $8 billion Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) project is a step closer following the signing of a contract for its new headquarters in Adelaide, South Australia.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Raytheon Australia Announces South Australian Engineering Centre at Techport
ADELAIDE – 13 November 2008: The mission systems integrator for the Hobart Class Air Warfare Destroyer program today announced that it had signed an agreement to lease a new facility in the commercial precinct of Techport Australia that will become the Raytheon Australia South Australian Engineering Centre.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
FORMER ARMY CHIEF JOINS SA’S DEFENCE BOARD
Premier Mike Rann and General Peter Cosgrove AC MC today announced the appointment of Lieutenant General Peter Leahy AC to the Defence SA Advisory Board.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
HARDENED AND NETWORKED ARMY EDINBURGH
The Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP, announced today that Defence has awarded Baulderstone Pty Ltd construction contracts with a value of $285 million and $124 million (excluding GST) for Packages 1 and 2 of the Hardened and Networked Army (HNA) Edinburgh Facilities Project.
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Monday, August 11, 2008
ADELAIDE-BASED ULTRA ELECTRONICS WINS AWD CONTRACT
Premier Mike Rann has welcomed the announcement that world-leading aerospace and defence electronics company Ultra Electronics has been chosen to supply the Undersea Warfare Sonar System for the Royal Australian Navys three air warfare destroyers (AWDs).
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Friday, June 27, 2008
DEFENCE DEAL GOOD NEWS FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Deputy Premier Kevin Foley has hailed todays announcement that BAE Systems had completed its takeover of Tenix Defence as good news for the State and further evidence of South Australias position as the nations defence industry capital.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
BUILDING AWDs – NAVANTIA SHOWS HOW IT’S DONE
Premier Mike Rann had his first opportunity to see modules of a Navantia-designed Air Warfare Destroyer under construction as well as look over a Navantia-designed Amphibious ship, at the company’s shipbuilding yards in the port of Ferrol in northern Spain today.
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Saturday, May 24, 2008
TENDERS CALLED FOR INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS AT EDINBURGH
Tenders have been called for the first two Hardened and Networked Army facilities and infrastructure to support the new battalion at the Edinburgh Defence Precinct, further strengthening South Australia’s push to become the nation’s defence capital.
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Friday, May 23, 2008
DEFENCE GIANT ULTRA ELECTRONICS LOOKS TO SA
Premier Mike Rann has welcomed plans by world-leading aerospace and defence electronics company Ultra Electronics to establish its Australian head office in Adelaide.
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Monday, May 19, 2008
RANN IN WASHINGTON FOR DEFENCE TALKS
Premier Mike Rann has arrived in Washington, DC for talks with a series of US defence companies over the next two days.
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
JOINT STRIKE FIGHTERS – $10 BILLION IN CONTRACTS UP FOR GRABS
Premier Mike Rann says the State Government will spearhead a bid to secure a slice of more than $10 billion in contracts identified by US Aeronautics giant Lockheed Martin as being available to Australianbased companies to help build the new Joint Strike Fighter aircraft.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
TECHPORT AUSTRALIA PRECINCT NOW SELLING
Stage One of Techport Australias Supplier Precinct at Osborne has been released to the market and interest levels are high.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
DEFENCE BOOM LURES ANOTHER AMERICAN FIRM
Deputy Premier Kevin Foley today welcomed the arrival of another international defence procurement company, the US-based aerospace and defence multinational AAR, which has announced it is to establish an office at Technology Park at Mawson Lakes.
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008
TECHPORT DEVELOPMENT ON TIME AND ON BUDGET
Premier Mike Rann says about $250 million in contracts have already been let and more than $80 million has been spent building the massive Techport Australia shipbuilding facility on the Lefevre Peninsula.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
TECHPORT AUSTRALIA TAKES SHAPE
South Australian company Ferrocut has bought a 2.24 hectare slice of the Techport Australia Supplier Precinct, becoming the first company to sign up to Australias premier naval shipbuilding hub.