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1BAE SYSTEMS AUSTRALIA
Turnover: 1.500 billion
Employees: 5,500 Defence
Percentage of Females in Workforce: 20
Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP): Yes Ownership: International
Details: Taranaki Road
Edinburgh Parks SA 5111
Website: www.baesystems.com Contacts: Ben Hudson - Chief Executive Andy Cornfield - Chief Financial Officer
CURRENT DEFENCE CONTRACTS
• Supply chain – BAE Systems has more than 1,600 Australian suppliers and spends around $700 million with those companies annually.
• 1,721 Australian companies are pre-qualified for the Hunter Class Frigate Program
AREAS OF INTEREST IN DEFENCE
In 2023, BAE Systems Australia celebrate its 70th year supporting the ADF across Air, Land, Sea and Cyber. The company has around 5,500 employees at sites across the nation and an extensive supplier network of Australian companies built up over seven decades.
Through enduring relationships, those small and medium sized businesses support a wide variety of critically important programs as they grow their businesses, their sovereign capability and the number of Australians they employ.
The company is focused on providing a capability edge for
the Australian military through its investment in research and technology and developing its people to ensure it contributes to building a stronger and more resilient nation.
The business is focused on the following areas: Ship design, build, upgrade and sustainment; Aircraft sustainment and training; Strategic surveillance & electronic warfare; High speed weapons, countermeasures and autonomy.
2THALES AUSTRALIA LIMITED
Turnover: 1.22 billion
Employees: 2,751.7 Defence; 789.8 non-Defence Percentage of Females in Workforce: 24
Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP): Yes Ownership: International Privately Owned Details: 7 Murray Rose Avenue
Sydney Olympic Park Sydney NSW 2127 Tel: (02) 8037 0000
Website: www.thalesgroup.com.au Contacts: Jeff Connolly - CEO Warwick Strachan - CFO
CURRENT DEFENCE CONTRACTS AND AREAS OF INTEREST
Thales Australia delivers a range of capabilities and contracts to the ADF and export customers spanning Air, Land, Sea, space and cyber, and including:
MARITIME
Sonar components and systems design, development, manufacture and export;
Autonomous above-water and underwater systems; Anti- submarine warfare systems; Submarine and ship service
and support; Operation of Sydney’s Garden Island dockyard;