Stephen Mullighan MP Treasurer Minister for Defence and Space Industries South Australia’s defence industry will be on the national stage at the Land Forces International Defence Expo in Melbourne from September 11 to 13. A record 67 exhibitors from SA will feature on the Defence SA stand, cementing our place as the Defence State. South Australia’s defence industry has grown significantly over the past 14 years. In 2010, just 12 exhibitors attended the biennial event. The increase is underpinned by growing demand and investment in SA from international companies. South Australia is at the forefront of the nation’s defence industry ...

Pat Conroy MP Federal Minister for Defence Industry Stephen Mullighan MP Minister for Defence and Space Industries Work has begun on the building of a giant four bay aircraft hangar in northern Adelaide to facilitate the specialist maintenance of the Australian Defence Force’s Boeing 737 variant military aircraft. In another significant defence partnership between the Albanese Government and Government of South Australia, the $200 million Deep Maintenance and Modification Facility will be built adjacent to Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Base Edinburgh, with construction to be overseen by the state government. The 240 metre long, 60 metre wide, 25 metre ...

Susan Close MP Deputy Premier Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science Blair Boyer MP Minister for Education, Training and Skills South Australia is leading the nation in its approach to paid education pathways with the creation of a second Degree Apprenticeship program. The South Australian Skills Commission has formally declared the degree apprenticeship pathway for mechanical engineering, which will be tailored to support students into promising defence industry careers. Flinders University has partnered with defence industry primes ASC Pty Ltd and BAE Systems Australia to welcome a cohort of degree apprentices from early 2025. It allows students to undertake paid ...

The Hon Richard Marles MP Deputy Prime Minister Minister for Defence The Hon Pat Conroy Minister for International Development and the Pacific Minister for Defence Industry The Albanese Government continues to progress Australia’s conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarine program, today announcing the concept design partners for South Australia’s new Nuclear-Powered Submarine Construction Yard (NPSCY). Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) and an AECOM and Aurecon Joint Venture have been announced as the design partners for the NPSCY. KBR has extensive experience in supporting design and project management for defence infrastructure facilities across the nation and will design the area of the NPSCY that ...

Blair Boyer MP Minister for Education, Training and Skills Construction of the Tonsley Technical College is underway, with concrete pouring and other key work taking place on site. The work has been undertaken by Sarah Constructions at the Tonsley Innovation Precinct. The Technical College is one of two colleges in metropolitan Adelaide. Both Tonsley Technical College and The Heights Technical College are due to welcome students in 2026. South Australia’s five new Technical Colleges are all now open for enrolments for 2025 and 2026, paving the way for students and their families to start planning their career pathways over the ...

Stephen Mullighan MP Minister for Defence and Spaces Industries Bombardier Defense is the latest business to call Adelaide home with the establishment of a South Australian office at Lot Fourteen. The new workspace was opened today by Minister for Defence and Space Industries, Stephen Mullighan. Selecting Lot Fourteen for its Australian presence ensures the business has access to a curated, collaborative research and business ecosystem dedicated to driving productivity and solving complex global challenges. Bombardier, a Canadian company founded in 1942, employs more than 18,000 people globally and has an in-service fleet of more than 5,000 aircraft, supported by a ...

Peter Malinauskas MP Premier Premier Peter Malinauskas has announced a new program with America’s largest shipbuilder HII to help South Australian companies enter the global supply chain for nuclear-powered submarines. The Premier announced the new program with HII while touring HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division in Virginia in the United States, where the defence giant builds Virginia Class submarines. The agreement connects the South Australian Government to HII’s Supplier Capability Uplift Program, enabling selected SA suppliers to participate in the nuclear-powered conventionally armed submarine supply chain. Given the highly specialised and technical nature of the work to build Virginia Class ...

Peter Malinauskas MP Premier South Australia and the State of Maryland will collaborate on developing the skilled workforce required for the AUKUS program, under a Memorandum of Understanding signed by Premier Peter Malinauskas. The Premier signed the MoU with the Governor of the State of Maryland, Wes Moore, in Annapolis, Maryland, on Thursday. Maryland is a national leader in defence, space and cyber, meaning there is strong scope for collaboration with South Australia. Fifteen of the world's top 20 aerospace and defence companies have a presence in Maryland. As part of the Memorandum of Understanding, both states have agreed to: ...

The Hon Catherine King MP Minister For Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development And Local Government The Hon Pat Conroy MP Minister For Defence Industry Minister For International Development And The Pacific The Hon Peter Malinauskas MP Premier Of South Australia The Hon Stephen Mullighan MP Minister For Defence And Space Industries The Albanese Government alongside the Malinauskas Government will jointly invest $60 million towards the Australian Defence Technologies Academy to be developed at Lot Fourteen, driving sovereign research and development of defence capabilities in South Australia. From 2026, Lot Fourteen will be home to a state-of-the-art facility which will provide digital ...

Blair Boyer MP Minister for Education, Training and Skills South Australian defence industry leaders will join forces at the University of South Australia today to welcome the first cohort of software engineering students who are beginning an Australian-first degree apprenticeship. Announced by the Malinauskas Labor Government in November, following the formal declaration by the SA Skills Commission of the Bachelor of Software Engineering (Honours) as a trade under the South Australian Skills Act 2008, the degree apprenticeship will support the growing defence sector, ahead of the construction of nuclear-powered AUKUS submarines. This is the first time in Australia that apprentices ...

Susan Close MP Acting Premier Minister for Workforce and Population Strategy Stephen Mullighan MP Minister for Defence and Space Industries Blair Boyer MP Minister for Education, Training and Skills Students at The Heights Technical College will be looking to the skies through an aero skills specialisation – one of the key pathways announced today for the upcoming technical college. Aero skills is the first of the specialisations and a key qualification to enable students to work in the defence sector. The specialised skills and knowledge will allow graduates to maintain aircraft to keep planes flying safely. An important component of ...