AUSTRALIAN+NEW ZEALAND DEFENCE DIRECTORY 2025 INDUSTRY GROUPS, ASSOCIATIONS & GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS www.defence.directory 41 VICTORIA’S DEFENCE SECTOR Victoria’s defence industry is renowned for its highly skilled workforce, excellence and unparalleled capabilities in: • advanced manufacturing • world-class research & development • delivering complex defence projects Contact us for more information about Victoria’s defence capabilities, supply chain initiatives and investment opportunities. Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions E: defence@ecodev.vic.gov.au W: www.defence.vic.gov.au INVESTMENT NSW Investment NSW is working to create the conditions for sustainable, technologically advanced, and globally competitive defence and aerospace industries. Contact Investment NSW to get support to establish and grow your company’s defence and aerospace footprint in NSW. P: +61 2 9000 1365 E: defence.nsw@investment.nsw.gov.au W: www.investment.nsw.gov.au/contact-us W: www.investment.nsw.gov.au/defenceand-aerospace-in-nsw/ DEFENCE SA A major part of the State’s strong economic performance is our successful track record of winning and delivering on major projects, in addition to being the most competitive place to do business in Australia (KPMG 2006). Contact Defence SA Level 4, 151 Pirie St, Adelaide SA 5000 P: +61 8 8463 7140 E: enquiries@defencesa.com ACT DEFENCE Canberra, Australia’s national capital, is also Australia’s defence capital with the largest concentration of defence and national security agencies, assests and organisations in Australia. The Canberra region also hosts the Royal Military College at Duntroon, the Austrlian Defence Force Academy, the Australian command and Staff College, and Headquarters Joint Opertions Command. E: defenceACT@act.gov.au W: www.business.act.gov.au/defence DEFENCE WEST WHERE AUKUS GETS REAL Western Australia is on the precipice of a defence industry boom. Already the engine room of Australia’s economy, providing nearly half of Australia’s export revenues, Western Australia is set to see a huge expansion of it’s advanced manufacturing and marine industries thanks to the AUKUS partnership and the recommendations from the Defence Strategic Review (DSR). Home to the nation’s largest naval base at HMAS Stirling, and Australia’s largest centre of marine industry at the Australian Marine Complex (AMC), Western Australia is a state with a proud naval history and a long tradition of supporting the ADF. From 2027 Western Australia will host a rotational presence of 4 US and 1 UK nuclearpowered, conventionally armed submarines (SSN) at HMAS Stirling. The works conducted at HMAS Stirling and the AMC to repair, maintain, sustainment and operate these SSNs will contribute significantly to the training of a nuclear capable submarine workforce, that will in turn be used to built the AUKUS SSNs in Adelaide. And in addition to the thousands of jobs created in Western Australia at the ASC, the roughly 150 Small and Medium Enterprises across the Collins-class supply chain will see huge opportunities for job creation due to AUKUS. Over the longer term, Western Australia is preparing to be home to at least half of Australia’s eight sovereign SSN’s, including the SSN AUKUS, to be built in Adelaide. Western Australia will also be the site for the construction of 14 new surface combatant hulls for the Royal Australian Navy – eight of the 11 general purpose frigates, and all six of the Large Optionally Crewed Surface Vessels. This is the most significant pipeline of naval shipbuilding work Western Australia has ever been awarded. The State’s defence industry already features leading defence prime contractors, including Austal, BAE Systems, Civmec, Luerssen, Raytheon, Thales and Lockheed Martin. And last year the State of Western Australia signed Memorandums of Understanding to develop its nuclear-powered submarine maintenance workforce with American nuclear submarine maintainer HII and UK nuclear submarine maintainer Babcock. These primes are also supported by an established and specialised network of approximately 250 small to medium enterprises that employ around 2,500 people. WESTERN AUSTRALIA’S UNIQUE CAPABILITIES Western Australia is home to a highly-skilled workforce, world-class infrastructure, a thriving marine industry ecosystem, leading space capabilities, cybersecurity expertise and remote operations. Western Australia’s cyber security capability, facilitated through our leading Universities, will present significant opportunities not just for our own Defence Force to improve their capability, but for services developed in Western Australia to be exported to other Allied nations. Western Australia is also home to a robust and highly capable space workforce, and has been home to a space industry for over 60 years. Our significant areas of activity in the field include ground-based satellite and deep-space communications; space situational awareness; data processing and analysis; and world leading remote operations. Western Australia is at the forefront of developing advanced robotics and unmanned systems, and already has a strong track record in both capabilities above the surface and under water. Western Australia has the pipeline of work, the skilled people and world-class industrial infrastructure needed to supply the Royal Australian Navy and Defence with everything it needs to carry out it’s critical mission of defending Australia. For further information Defence West Level 11, 1 William St Perth WA 6000 P: +61 8 6277 3000 E: defencewest@jtsi.wa.gov.au W: www.defencewest.wa.gov.au
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