iscover
Warning: Attempt to read property "name" on false in /data/www/upgrade/australianaviation.com.au/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/momentummedia-article-gate/includes/class-momentummedia-article-gate.php on line 169
BAE Systems has become the seventh major defence company to sign a Global Supply Chain Deed with the Department of Defence.
Signed by Defence Materiel Minister Jason Clare and new BAE Systems Australia CEO David Allott at Parliament House in Canberra today, the supply chain deed sees the company join Boeing, Raytheon, Thales, Eurocopter, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman in Defence’s Global Supply Chain program.
This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members.
A monthly membership is only $5.99 or save with our annual plans.
- Australian Aviation quarterly print & digital magazines
- Access to In Focus reports every month on our website
- Unlimited access to all Australian Aviation digital content
- Access to the Australian Aviation app
- Australian Aviation quarterly print & digital magazines
- Access to In Focus reports every month on our website
- Access to our Behind the Lens photo galleries and other exclusive content
- Daily news updates via our email bulletin
- Unlimited access to all Australian Aviation digital content
- Access to the Australian Aviation app
- Australian Aviation quarterly print & digital magazines
- Access to In Focus reports every month on our website
- Access to our Behind the Lens photo galleries and other exclusive content
- Daily news updates via our email bulletin
“When the program was established everyone agreed that if it could provide a 10-fold return on the government’s investment it would be a roaring success. To date it has delivered more than a 30-fold return on investment with more than $356 million in contracts awarded to Australian industry,” Clare said in a statement.
“Australian SMEs have been the big winners, winning about 90 per cent of the value of these contracts,” he added.
BAE will now move forward with plans to sign an annex to its agreement with Defence, which gives companies access to government funding to hire a team of people to identify and certify Australian companies as part of their global supply chain. Boeing, Raytheon and Thales currently have such annexes in place.
