Defence plans on investing tens of billions of dollars in Australian technologies over the next two decades. Foreign based supply chain issues and increasingly unstable geopolitical factors, have lead to a requirement for Australia to rapidly expand its defence manufacturing capabilities.
The Australian undersea capabilities industry will need:
- Assembly, test and verification
- Flexible & adaptive manufacturing systems (e.g Industry 4.0)
- Imaging technologies
- Remote sensing technologies
- Guidance & Control component production
- Metal parts fabrication (high strength / high tolerance)
- Composite parts fabrication (high strength / high tolerance)
- Research and development (Industry / Defence / Academia)
- Storage/transport/logistics/infrastructure
- Computer simulation modelling
- Support equipment & container manufacture
- Electronics manufacture (robust, mil spec)
- Safety Critical software development
- Complex Supply Chain Management
- AS9100 Quality Management Systems
- Robust & Adaptive Control design
- Non-Destructive Testing
- Environmental Testing
- Technology education and skills training