2008
$20M BOOST FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE INDUSTRY
02 December 2008
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.
Download PDF 70KBAIR WARFARE DESTROYER SAILING AHEAD
02 December 2008
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.
Download PDF 20KBINVESTMENT IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA DEFENCE INDUSTRY SKILLS
18 November 2008
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.
Download PDF 22KBSOUTH AUSTRALIA INDUSTRY SCHOOLS PATHWAY PROGRAM
18 November 2008
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.
Download PDF 27KBTECHPORT AUSTRALIA POWERS AHEAD WITH OPENING OF SKILLS CENTRE
13 November 2008
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.
Download PDF 87KBAIR WARFARE DESTROYER SYSTEMS CENTRE DEEDS SIGNED
13 November 2008
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.
Download PDF 19KBRAYTHEON AUSTRALIA ANNOUNCES SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERING CENTRE AT TECHPORT
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.
Download PDF 24KBFORMER ARMY CHIEF JOINS SA’S DEFENCE BOARD
21 October 2008
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.
Download PDF 104KBHARDENED AND NETWORKED ARMY EDINBURGH FACILITIES PROJECT
21 October 2008
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.
Download PDF 19KBADELAIDE-BASED ULTRA ELECTRONICS WINS AWD CONTRACT
11 August 2008
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 Navy's three air warfare destroyers (AWDs).
Download PDF 90KBDEFENCE DEAL GOOD NEWS FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA
27 June 2008
Deputy Premier Kevin Foley has hailed today's announcement that BAE Systems had completed its takeover of Tenix Defence as good news for the State and further evidence of South Australia's position as the nation's defence industry capital.
Download PDF 77KBBUILDING AWDS – NAVANTIA SHOWS HOW IT’S DONE
27 May 2008
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.
Download PDF 69KBTENDERS CALLED FOR INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS AT EDINBURGH
24 May 2008
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.
Download PDF 65KBDEFENCE GIANT ULTRA ELECTRONICS LOOKS TO SA
23 May 2008
Premier Mike Rann has welcomed plans by world-leading aerospace and defence electronics company Ultra Electronics to establish its Australian head office in Adelaide.
Download PDF 56KBRANN IN WASHINGTON FOR DEFENCE TALKS
19 May 2008
Premier Mike Rann has arrived in Washington, DC for talks with a series of US defence companies over the next two days.
Download PDF 55KBJOINT STRIKE FIGHTERS – $10 BILLION IN CONTRACTS UP FOR GRABS
17 May 2008
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 Australian-based companies to help build the new Joint Strike Fighter aircraft.
Download PDF 55KBTECHPORT AUSTRALIA PRECINCT NOW SELLING
22 April 2008
Stage One of Techport Australia's Supplier Precinct at Osborne has been released to the market and interest levels are high.
Download PDF 42KBDEFENCE BOOM LURES ANOTHER AMERICAN FIRM
22 April 2008
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.
Download PDF 91KBTECHPORT DEVELOPMENT ON TIME AND ON BUDGET
08 April 2008
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.
Download PDF 82KBTECHPORT AUSTRALIA TAKES SHAPE
30 January 2008
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 Australia's premier naval shipbuilding hub.
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