Strategic updates.
Essential announcements.

BAE Systems Australia is pleased to announce the purchase of the defence and High Frequency (HF) antenna product portfolio intellectual property from Radio Frequency Systems (Australia), a wholly owned subsidiary of Radio Frequency Systems (Germany). This sale follows a decision by the company’s German parent to move out of the Defence sector.

The Malinauskas Government will work collaboratively with Australian defence giant BAE Systems Australia to develop the state’s defence workforce and skills, following today’s signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Osborne Naval Shipyard.

In a revolutionary step for defence industry innovation, BAE Systems Australia and technology incubator Stone & Chalk are collaborating on a ground-breaking approach designed to spark innovation within the defence and security sectors.

Integration of the complex combat systems on the Royal Australian Navy’s existing guided missile destroyers and Hunter class frigates will be done in Australia, following an agreement between three of the country’s largest defence companies and the Department of Defence.

BAE Systems Australia is expanding its science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) outreach program with immersive technology company, Lumination, to young people in Victoria.

BAE Systems Australia has welcomed its largest group of Aerospace apprentices and first cohort of aircraft engineers as the company expands its sustainment operations in response to the Royal Australia Air Force’s growing F-35 fleet and the Hawk Lead-In Fighter training aircraft.

BAE Systems and STEM Returners Australia are again joining forces to help STEM educated people resume their professional careers.

The Commonwealth Government has awarded a contract extension to the Warship Asset Management Agreement (WAMA) partners, securing the future of critical ship management capability.

BAE Systems Australia has become the first Defence prime to enter a partnership with Advanced Fibre Cluster, a group of organisations leading the innovation of advanced fibre and composite technology capabilities in Australia. The partnership was made official at a signing ceremony at Avalon Airshow.

One of BAE Systems Australia’s youngest engineers, Callum Rohweder, has been named Young Innovator of the Year at this year’s Avalon Airshow.

BAE Systems Australia and European missile group MBDA today announced a collaboration agreement that will support Australia as it establishes its sovereign Guided Weapon and Explosive Ordnance (GWEO) capability.

BAE Systems Australia has teamed with local industry to present Australia’s first domestically designed, manufactured and armed VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) uncrewed air system (UAS).

BAE Systems Australia has announced the design and development of a new sovereign munition concept - to be known as RAZERTM - positioning the company as a future supplier of low-cost precision guided munitions to Australian and potential export customers.

BAE Systems Australia is inviting university students, veterans and their families who are attending Avalon 2023 to come and learn more about exciting job opportunities on offer across its business.

Eighty six young people are preparing to start their careers with BAE Systems Australia after the Company recruited a record number of graduates.

BAE Systems Australia has secured a new contract with Lockheed Martin to activate an F-35 Asia-Pacific Regional Warehouse at its Williamtown aircraft sustainment operations in regional New South Wales.

BAE Systems Australia is pleased to announce significant contract awards to six Australian SMEs as part of the delivery of critical hardware and software sub-assemblies into the global Evolved SeaSparrow Missile (ESSM) program.

Australian business REDARC Defence & Space has been awarded a $23 million contract to supply 12,600 LED lights for the first batch of three Hunter class warships.

BAE Systems Australia today welcomed an announcement by the Federal Government for the approval of a Facility Services Deed that underpins the expansion of the Company’s F-35 sustainment operations at Williamtown in the Hunter Valley.

BAE Systems Australia today welcomed a $45 million, three year contract extension with the Commonwealth of Australia to provide in-service periscope support for the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) six Collins Class submarines.

Propellers for Australia’s elite submarine-hunting warships are one-step closer to being made in Australia, delivering a critical local capability that will be able to be used in future naval ship-build programs.

BAE Systems Australia has been selected to partner with the Commonwealth of Australia to deliver a sovereign sustainment capability to the Royal Australian Navy’s Hobart Class Destroyer (DDG) fleet based in Sydney.

BAE Systems Australia and EPE have today announced a technical partnership to demonstrate advanced autonomous capabilities in Australia.

Australian and UK researchers and innovators have struck a new agreement to support opportunities to collaborate on modern manufacturing methods that could be adapted to shipbuilding and marine operations underway in both hemispheres. 

BAE Systems Australia is the nation’s premier defence prime contractor and is home to the industry’s ‘executive of the year’.

Equal to the size of two houses and taking 45,000 hours, the first steel ‘block’ has been constructed by shipbuilders working on the Hunter Class Frigate Program.

BAE Systems Australia teams and individuals are finalists in several award categories of the prestigious Australian Defence Industry Awards.