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NEWS REVIEW INDUSTRY UPDATE 17
ALLECTUM WINS RAAF SUPPORT CONTRACT
CANBERRA-BASED company Allectum has been selected to provide the sustainment office capability for Distributed Ground Station – Australia.
Distributed Ground Station – Australia (DGS-AUS) is a first-of-type capability for intelligence fusion and dissemination of air- borne-generated sensor data for the RAAF.
In servicing this capability, Allectum has employed a diverse range of veterans who will impart their years of service and knowledge of ADF ICT environments to support the RAAF’s fifth generation plat- forms and key decision-makers.
Allectum, a veteran-owned and oper- ated company, partnered with SME Gate- way to win the contract to provide the sus- tainment office capability.
The sustainment office capability will enable the RAAF to balance the require- ments of the existing capability while at
RIGHT: Air Vice Marshal
Joe Iervasi (right) with Flying Officer Kyle Reid at Distributed Ground Station – Australia.
the same time onboard the new capability as de- livered under project Air 3503.
Distributed Ground
Station – Australia is re-
sponsible for the analysis
of data collected from the
various RAAF intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft. It also has access to national intelligence resources and using advanced computer systems, it can rapidly fuse collected information and provide decision-makers with enhanced situational awareness of events.
“This capability has created a number of jobs, 80 per cent of which are filled by veterans. A fantastic opportunity to support the community and to provide real capability to Defence,” Jeremy St- redwick, co-owner and Director of Al- lectum said.
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