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68 TOP 40 DEFENCE CONTRACTORS 2020
18AUSTAL
Turnover: $222 million
Employees: 839 Defence; 173 non-Defence Percentage of Females in Workforce: 14.3
Ownership: Australian Publicly Owned
Details: 100 Clarence Beach Road Henderson WA 6166 Tel: (08) 9410 1111
Website: www.austal.com
Contacts: Patrick Gregg CEO
Davyd Thomas VP Defence
CURRENT DEFENCE CONTRACTS
• Sea3036 Pacific Patrol Boat Replacement (PPB-R) Project comprising 21 x 39.5 metre Guardian-class Patrol Boats (GCPB's) under construction in Henderson, Western Australia for the Commonwealth of Australia. Eight GCPB's have been delivered since December 2018 (as at November 2020).
• Two 58 metre Cape Class Patrol Boats (CCPB's) for Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard are under construction at Henderson, Western Australia.
• Six 58 metre Cape Class Patrol Boats (CCPB's) for the Royal Australian Navy are under construction at Henderson, Western Australia
• Cape Class Patrol Boat In-Service Support for the Australian Border Force (8 x CCPB's) continues.
• Cape Class Patrol Boat In-Service Support for the Royal Australian Navy (2 x CCPB's) continues.
AREAS OF INTEREST IN DEFENCE
• Austal continues to pursue multiple new defence export opportunities and technologies (such as autonomous vessels), across a wide variety of platforms, including patrol boats, offshore patrol vessels, high speed support vessels and larger warships for clients and prospective clients, worldwide.
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1100 employees. All systems for the PMV Lethality Upgrade
will be built in Australia in Queanbeyan, NSW and Hume, ACT.
• Land 400 PHASE 3 IFV: Team Redback (Hanwha Defence
Australia and EOS) is currently contracted to participate in the Risk Mitigation Activity phase of the project. Hanwha’s AS21 Redback armoured vehicle will be equipped with EOS’ advanced T2000 turret to provide mounted close combat capability. Land 400 Phase 3 will deliver up to 450 infantry fighting vehicles and 17 support vehicles from 2024/25 onwards. The project’s RFT also mandated that all tenderers are to incorporate information for the EOS RWS into their responses.
• C4 EDGE: EOS is the lead partner for the C4 EDGE
(Evolutionary Digital Ground Environment) a Communications Program bringing together 23 Australian sovereign C4 (command control communications and computers) subject matter experts leveraging internationally agreed upon standards to scope a proof of concept demonstration of a sovereign land battlegroup and below communications environment for the Australian Army by the end of 2021.
OVERSEAS
• EOS has an extensive list of foreign contracts with over 1,500 systems in service around the world. The acquisition and sustainment of foreign systems brings AU$160 million annually into the Australian economy.
SPACE
• EOS (through its Space Systems subsidiary) has been awarded a AU$5.1 million contract by the Australian Department of Defence for technical development. The contract commenced in Q4 2020 and will run for two years.
• EOS also has a current contract for the provision of space domain awareness data to the RAAF.
COMMUNICATIONS
• The provision of quality naval satellite communications equipment is critical to support the Continuous Ship Building Program. The Cobra X/Ka Triband Maritime Satellite Communications (SATCOM) Terminal has already been delivered for Sea1654 and the first tranche of Sea1180. EOS (through EM Solutions) has been contracted by the Defence Innovation Hub to develop a larger terminal with a view to develop a primary SATCOM terminal required to support Sea5000 noting the current Cobra terminal already supports alternate SATCOM requirements on these larger vessels.
AREAS OF INTEREST IN DEFENCE
DEFENCE
• Technology for weapon systems optimisation and integration, as well as Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance for land warfare.
• Robotic and autonomous systems development with a major focus on the long distance remote control of precision lethality for future warfighting.
• Key products: Next-generation remote weapon systems, vehicle turrets, counter-UAS systems, lethality systems for remote and autonomous platforms, battlegroup and below communications systems.
SPACE
• Equipment, systems and facilities for space domain awareness (SDA).
• Key products: Australian-designed and developed beam director telescopes, high-powered laser systems, enhanced imaging systems and high accuracy timing and positioning systems; fully
ELECTRO OPTIC SYSTEMS (EOS)
*Also now includes EM Solutions Turnover: $200 million
Employees: 308 Defence; 50 non-Defence Percentage of Females in Workforce: 22
Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP): No
Ownership: Australian Publicly Owned
Details: 18 Wormald Street Symonston ACT 2609
Tel: (02) 6298 8000
Website: www.eos-aus.com
Contacts: Grant Sanderson CEO EOS Defence Systems
Scott Hicks SVP Strategy and Business Development Electro Optic Systems
CURRENT DEFENCE CONTRACTS
DEFENCE AUSTRALIA
• EOS has over 230 R400 remote weapon systems (RWS) currently
in-service with Australia’s combat forces. Sustainment and spare
parts for these systems is provided by EOS.
• Land 400 Phase 2 CRV: Supply of 84 EOS R400 RWS for use on
the Boxer combat reconnaissance vehicle.
• PMV Lethality upgrade: Supply of 251 EOS R400 RWS for use
on the Bushmaster and Hawkei protected mobility vehicles. 40 RWS are scheduled for delivery in Q4 2020 with the remainder to be delivered in 2021. This contract will assist in securing EOS’ Australian supply chain consisting of 146 SMEs and over