Boeing Defence Australia (BDA) has received Military Production Organisation Approval (MPOA) from the Defence Aviation Safety Authority (DASA) for the local manufacture of aerospace parts and components. The approval will speed up parts availability for Australian Defence Force (ADF) aircraft while driving down overall sustainment costs. The MPOA permits BDA to bulk produce a range…
Boeing Defence Australia (BDA) has welcomed a cohort of 16 trainee aerospace workers to its P-8A Poseidon through life support program, which BDA says is its largest single intake of trainees. Over 40 new trades employees are required over the next two years for the upgrade program, said Ben Knabe, director of BDA’s Product Support,…
Wire arc additive manufacturing machinery manufacturer AML3D has finalised a defence Manufacturing License Agreement with Boeing Defence and Space and its Australian subsidiaries. The MLA allows Boeing to provide technical data, defence services and the option to temporarily import parts to allow testing, inspection and additive manufacturing of components to support maintenance of aircraft. The…
Boeing has signed a contract with Lockheed Martin Australia to deliver the deployed communications elements of the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) next generation Joint Air Battle Management System (JABMS) under project AIR6500. Drawing on the technology developed for the Currawong Battlespace Communications System, Boeing Defence Australia (BDA) will deliver hardware and software for voice and…
US nuclear submarine constructor Huntington Ingalls Industries has announced the appointment of Tim Brown as vice president of operations and Terry Nichols as the managing director for two HII business areas in Australia. Brown and Nichols will work from HII’s Canberra office, and both will report directly to Michael Lempke, president of Mission Technologies’ Nuclear…
The federal government has signed a $500 million contract with Lockheed Martin Australia to deliver the next phase of the Joint Air Battle Management System that synchronises air and missile defence operations across air, sea and land operations. LMA was named in October as the strategic partner to deliver the project, known as AIR6500, which…
Aerospace company Boeing has been awarded a $139.5 million contract to deliver Increment 3 Block 2 software, systems and sensor upgrades to enhance the anti-submarine warfare, maritime strike and intelligence collection capabilities of the RAAF’s P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft. The RAAF’s first P-8A aircraft entered into service in 2016, with the latest upgrades supporting…
Boeing has begun construction at the Toowoomba site where it will build the MQ-28 Ghost Bat, the first first military combat aircraft to be designed and made in Australia in more than a half century. Queensland was selected as the state to host the build of the uncrewed plane in 2020, with Wellcamp Airport selected…
A study just released by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency of gender pay gaps in companies found that women in the workforce are still badly treated, in fact very badly treated. The median gender pay gap in 5,000 companies studied on a base salary measure was found to be 14.5 per cent, while on a…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. 5) Legrand is competitive with local manufacture – why not others? In all the orgy of offshoring that has hollowed out Australian manufacturing in the past few decades, few have stopped to ask why do those companies that remain…
