2015 is the year that saw Government announce that Continuous Shipbuilding will be a permanent feature in the nation’s industrial landscape – surely, this is not an outlandish notion for a maritime nation. To understand …
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The keel-laying ceremony held last week for the third destroyer, Sydney marked significant progress for the Air Warfare Destroyer Alliance. This is the latest in a series of important achievements across the project with this …
The Government has a clear strategy for achieving a productive, cost-competitive and sustainable naval shipbuilding industry. We also know that Australia cannot afford a naval shipbuilding industry at any price. A reshaping and reform of …
As Australia approaches a decision concerning its acquisition of a next-generation submarine, it faces several crucial questions, not least of which is whether to build this submarine in Australia or buy it off-the-shelf from a …
The Commonwealth will shortly release a restricted tender to Lockheed Martin and Raytheon to determine who should be the lead system integrator of the combat system in Australia’s future submarine. The task of the winning …