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TABLE 4 FEMALE PARTICIPATION
COMPANY
Australian Defence Apparel Customs Agency Services Pty Ltd ESS Support Services Worldwide Serco Australia Pty Ltd
Milspec Services Pty Ltd Providence Consulting Broadspectrum (A Ventia company) SME Gateway Pty Ltd
Kinexus
AECOM Australia Pty Ltd
Aurecon Australasia Pty Ltd Downer/Spotless
BMT
BGIS
Eylex Pty Ltd
Lendlease Building Pty Ltd
Fujitsu Australia Limited
EPE. Trusted to Protect
Beca Pty Ltd
Leidos Australia
Lockheed Martin Australia
NIOA
Boeing Defence Australia
CEA Technologies Pty Limited Electro Optic Systems Pty Limited Codarra Advanced Systems Pty Ltd Atlantic & Peninsula Australia Pty Ltd Kellogg Brown & Root Pty Ltd (KBR) Saab Australia
Daronmont Technologies Pty Ltd Northrop Grumman Australia Rheinmetall Defence Australia
St Hilliers Property Pty Limited Quickstep Holdings Limited
% FEMALE 2020
82
63 62.2 62 50 46 42
%FEMALE 2019
82
64 62.07 61
% FEMALE
2020 2019
19 18 19 15 19 19.4
18.4
17.8 16
17.6 18.5
17.16
16.7 40
16 11 16
16
15.88 24 15.6 15 15 15 15 18
15
14.28 14.5
14 14
14 19 13.45 16 13 12 13 13 12.5 10
11.11 2
COMPANY
BAE Systems Australia
Penten Pty Ltd
QinetiQ Pty Ltd
L3Harris Technologies, Inc
Navantia Australia Pty Ltd
Cubic Defence Australia and Cubic Defence New Zealand
Jet Aviation Australia Pty Ltd Leonardo Australia Pty Ltd ASC Pty Ltd
RUAG Australia Pty Ltd Sitzler Pty Ltd
Babcock Australasia
Airbus
Air Affairs Australia
CAE Australia Pty Ltd
PMB Defence Pty Ltd Austal Limited
R.G.M. Maintenance Pty Ltd Safran
Shamrock Civil Engineering Pty Ltd Collins Aerospace Australia Supacat
AeroPM
XTEK Ltd
Norship
TAE Aerospace Pty Ltd
Bisalloy Steels Pty Ltd
Marand Precision Engineering Pty Ltd Axiom Precision Manufacturing APGC Group Pty Ltd
Birdon Pty Ltd
VARLEY
Sydney City Marine Pty Limited
%FEMALE
36 41 40 40 43
36
35.2 32
35 34 31.57 38
31
30 30 28 27
26.4
26 25 25 33 24 22 24 21 24 27
22
22 22 22 17 22
21.5 21
20.3 24 20 20 20 22 20 19 20 13 19.6 18.1
21.84
11
10.6 12
10 20 10 10.8
10 10
9.5 7.4 7.7 9
0.24
10.88
Looking ahead toward 2021, SCM sees similar challeng- es in the first half of the year, albeit with the added chal- lenge of finding additional skilled labour, however as the pandemic begins to reduce its effect on the economy, we forecast a normalised growth outlook for the remainder of 2021 and into 2022,” Levin explained.
Another first-time entrant is PMB Defence (No. 16 in the Top 20 SMEs and No. 8 in the ANZ SME list), a world leader in battery technology, most recognised for their work on submarines batteries at home and further abroad. The company also is in the process of building a brand-new facility at the Osborne maritime facility, twice the size of their previous site.
“For PMB, 2020 has seen many years of strategies and initiatives begin to take effect,” Stephen Faulkner, CEO of
PMB Defence said to ADM. “The acquisition of two busi- nesses focussed on traditional lead-acid and Nickel-Zinc technology respectively, has occurred in the same time frame that we are relocating our facility to a much more modern and higher capacity plant.
“The convergence of these activities whilst we manage operating through a pandemic and compete for the Austra- lian Future Submarine work has been challenging from a bandwidth perspective to say the least. Having said that, the we aim to be considered the world’s most credible sub- marine battery designer and supplier, and we are now in a unique position to achieve that goal.
“Our human capability has been grown significantly in all aspects of our business with this in mind. Now that much of the strategic work is behind us, 2021 will see us