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BAE Systems Australia is racing ahead with the largest ever Australian surface warship build program, the Hunter Class Frigate Program.

Paul is a Weapons System, Team Lead Technician, specialising in the Mk 45 gun that has been a critical part of the Hobart class and Anzac class ship capability for more than 28 years.

Operators of the Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN) will soon be able to manage surveillance across Australia’s north more effectively using a new Human Machine Interface (HMI). This comes after successful trials completed by BAE Systems Australia and the Department of Defence.

The BAE Systems Australia team upgrading the Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN) has been working alongside Adelaide-based QuantX Labs to install a cutting-edge technology, which has been 30 years in the making, across JORN's three operating sites.

My pre-university year was spent in Portsmouth as a UK Ministry of Defence-sponsored student engineer, where a highlight was assisting ultrasonic testing of HMS Victory’s oak beams. Little did I know that 30 years later I would be ‘living the dream’ working in Portsmith, Cairns, in beautiful Far North Queensland.

Digital design and advanced manufacturing techniques are changing the face of modern naval shipbuilding.

It seems unlikely that one of Red Ochre LABS foremost experts on autonomous land vehicles began his career in the Henderson Shipyard in Western Australia. Yet, this is the professional journey taken by Branden Fipps over eight years with the company.

BAE Systems Australia's Jindalee Operations Radar Network (JORN) team is making significant progress with the delivery of Phase 6 upgrades as installation commences at the first radar site in remote outback Australia.

Earlier this year the Hobart-class achieved Final Operating Capability, a momentous milestone for the program and a proud moment for the Destroyer Enterprise.

"I hope we can keep changing stereotypes from a young age. When you ask a kindy kid to draw an engineer, they'll typically draw a male."

In 2019, a team of BAE Systems Australia Red Ochre LABS engineers began converting M113AS4 Armoured Personnel Carriers to operate Optionally Crewed – a significant milestone in the exploration of autonomous capabilities on the future battlefield.

A local South Australian business, founded back in 1953, B.L. Shipway today is part of the Defence Supply chain working on the M113 – the world’s largest family of armoured personnel carriers.