Page 48 - Australian Defence Magazine Dec19-Jan20

48 TOP 40 CONTEXT
DECEMBER 2019 – JANUARY 2020 | WWW.AUSTRALIANDEFENCE.COM.AU
questions. Once again ADM asked what the percentage of females were in the workforce; many companies did not answer the question but of the 55 that did, the average works out to be 25 per cent, with Australian Defence Apparel having a staggering 82 per cent of their workforce as female (see Table 4 for female participation figures). ADM suspects this has more to do with the textiles-based nature of their business, which is a tradition- ally female workforce.
In Australia, the national female STEM
workforce makes up on average 17 per cent
of the field, according to Australia's first
Women in STEM Ambassador Professor
Lisa Harvey-Smith. The female participation
figure for the Defence Industry was further
confirmed this year by research from Rapid Context which found that in the top 20 defence industry companies less that 1 in 5 defence industry employees are women, and less than 1 in 7 defence industry managers are women. Only 1 in 14 new apprentices in the industry are women.
COMMENT
As always, the figures here are but a snapshot in time of what the Australian Defence Industry landscape looks like. In terms of R&D, exports and AIC figures, Tables 5 and 6 provide some context into what policy in action looks like. As Minister for Defence Industry Melissa Price confirms in
TABLE 6 – TOP 20 SMEs AIC R&D EXPORTS
ABOVE: The various phases of Land 400 are coming together in 2019/2020.
her From the Source interview this month, both the CDIC and Defence Export Controls agencies are being reviewed to make sure they are fit for purpose in terms of timeliness and value for money for all parties.
The hole left by Raytheon choosing not to report this year is disappointing but that is the nature of a volun- tary survey. Naval Group Australia has never taken part in the survey and it will be interesting to see if they
SME COMPANY TURNOVER ($) AIC ($) AIC % R&D ($) R&D% EXPORT ($) EXPORT % RANK
1 St Hilliers Property 135,416,514 135,416,514 100
2 NIOA 81,830,000 21,500,000 26
3 Safran 80,000,000 20,000,000 25
4 CAE Australia 72,000,000 39,000,000 54 1,500,000 2
5 Leonardo Australia 70,000,000 15,000,000 21 4,000,000 5 2,000,000 2
6 RUAG Australia 52,000,000 46,000,000 88 3,000,000 5 20,000,000 38
7 Cubic Defence Australia and 44,770,368 34,688,061 77 3,732,403 8 Cubic Defence NZ
8 Norship 43,000,000 42,000,000 97 2,000,000 4 4,000,000 9
9 Collins Aerospace Australia 36,000,000 27,000,000 75 3,600,000 10 7,200,000 20
9 SME Gateway 36,000,000 36,000,000 100
11 XTEK 35,500,000 8,000,000 22 1,600,000 4 1,000,000 2
12 Daronmont Technologies 35,100,000 33,500,000 95
13 Air Affairs Australia 35,000,000 40,000,000 114 2,500,000 7 10,000,000 28
15 Shamrock Civil Engineering 30,057,000 71,326,000 237
17 Kinexus 22,170,000 22,170,000 100
18 Birdon 16,327,000 28,878,742 176
19 Customs Agency Services 13,750,000 13,750,000 100 3,750,000 27
20 Craig International Ballistics 12,275,000 6.46 48.68 0.61 4 4.8 36
CREDIT HERE