SA military related industry and education sites

Techport on the LeFevre Peninsula Some of the Corporations here: Raytheon, 620 Mersey Road North Osborne SA 5017 C/- ASC North (Submarines) 694 Mersey Road North Outer Harbour SA 5017 C/- ASC South (AWD Shipyard) 640 Mersey Road Outer Harbour SA 5017 ASC Pty Ltd ASC North (Submarines) 694 Mersey Road North Outer Harbour SA 5017 ASC South (AWD Shipyard) 640 Mersey Road Outer Harbour SA 5017 PMB Defence (used to be Pacific Marine Batteries), 655 Mersey Rd North Osborne SA 5017	At Techport itself there is a purpose built Education Centre called the Maritime Skills Centre that was built so that TAFE could provide work-ready employees to the Air Warfare Destroyers project. In Port Adelaide the LeFevre High School VET Maritime Engineering certificate courses that used to be aimed squarely at the fishing industry now seems to promise that courses may lead directly to apprenticeships with the AWD project and other Techport projects Techport Australia, Adelaide, is the confirmed build location of the Future Frigate program, a fleet of nine vessels to replace the in-service ANZAC class frigates. The build starts in 2020. Techport Australia has been confirmed as the location for the commencement of the build of Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs). The vessels will have initial build here starting 2018 after the Air Warfare Destroyers are finished, then the final build will transfer to WA when the Future Frigate project starts here in 2020. Techport Australia is the confirmed build location for the Future Submarine program. Key project infrastructure is also being targeted by the state, including the Future Submarine Design Centre and Combat System Design Integration and Test Facility. Techport’s Australian Submarine Corporation is where the Collins’ class submarines were built and where through-life maintenance support is conducted. There is a full submarine ship lift on site as well as capacity for full rebuilds, which is planned to extend the life of these submarines into the 2030s The Air Warfare Destroyers are Hobart class destroyers and the project to build three is being delivered in Adelaide at Techport Australia by the AWD Alliance, made up of the Department of Defence, lead shipbuilder ASC Pty Ltd, and mission systems integrator Raytheon Australia. One vessel is undergoing sea trials, one has been launched and is alongside having its combat integration system installed and the third is due to be launched by May 2018. A purpose built shiplift (the badly misnamed “common user facility”) is completely surrounded by the AWD project.
Technology Park at Mawson Lakes (with some spill-over of individual companies into the Pooraka, Dry Creek and Cavan industrial areas).	This precinct is closely adjacent to the Uni SA campus, which provides a stream of young graduates to the high-tech industries of Technology Park Uni SA: Master of Project Management (in association with Australian Submarine Corporation (ASC) Pty Ltd) General Dynamics Land Systems – Australia, 26 Williams Circuit, Pooraka (national armoured fighting vehicle manufacturing and sustainment hub, in conjunction with BAE Systems) SAAB Australia, 21 Third Avenue, Technology Park, Mawson Lakes Lockheed Martin, 45 Third Avenue, Mawson Lakes Codan Limited (including the new Codan Defence division, 2 Second Avenue, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095. Radio and secure comms (started off making RFDS radios for outback families), antenna arrays, and mineral and mine detection gear SpeedCast, 12 Park Way, bought out the failed NewSat space communication arrays at Mawson Lakes. NewSat over-reached in their $600 million project to launch the Jabiru-1 satellite communications system built by neighbour Lockheed Martin. In addition to their civilian teleport facilities SpeedCast have service agreements with several militaries and military contractors. Most recently, in 2016 they contracted with Airbus Defence to provide support, maintenance and operation of the Skynet East Anchor Station of the British military’s Skynet 5 satellite system. The new antenna dish array was located on-ground at Mawson Lakes to enable the British to better observe the South China Sea, in preparation for increased “friction” in that area, according to British High Commissioner, Menna Rawlings. This means the facility will be one of the first targets in any military dispute with China, whether or not Australia is involved in providing personnel or materiel to support either the US or UK.
RAAF Edinburgh, and the industrial area around RAAF Edinburgh, called the Edinburgh Defence Precinct Some of the corporations located here; BAE Systems, 1 Taranaki Rd, Edinburgh Parks, Edinburgh Raytheon, Edinburgh RAAF Base, SA 5111 Northrop Gumman, Edinburgh RAAF Base, SA 5111 CAE Australia, RAAF Base Building 398 – 292, Squadron AFS, Edinburgh	A Defence Super-Base that has seen an influx of personnel. It now houses 3500 personnel from the Australian Army, Royal Australian Air Force, the Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group, elements of Joint Logistics Command (part of Vice Chief of Defence Force Group) and Defence Estate and Infrastructure Group as well as key defence companies including BAE Systems Australia, Raytheon Australia, Airbus Group Australia Pacific, CAE Australia and Meggitt Training Systems. Once acquired, RAAF Base Edinburgh in Adelaide will be the base for the nation’s new fleet of P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft, as it has been for RAAF’s AP-3C Orion maritime patrol fleet during the past four decades. The existing Orion maritime patrol program at Edinburgh has a “through-life” support program run by the AP-3C Accord Alliance, consisting of Airbus Group Australia Pacific, BAE Systems Australia and the Department of Defence. Since 2005, Raytheon Australia have been providing avionics through-life support to the AP-3C Orions and aerospace support to the Air Warfare Centre. CAE Australia, located at RAAF Base Edinburgh provide software, system maintenance, upgrade and support to the AP-3C Advanced Flight Simulator as part of the existing Orion patrol program.  Hercules training is also conducted from Edinburgh, and the resulting black deposits of aviation fuel particulates rain continuously from the slow-moving Hercules as they do their “circuits and bumps” all day long over the low socio-economic northern suburbs of Burton, Direk, Edinburgh, Salisbury North and Waterloo Corner After the Global Hawk visited Edinburgh Airbase in 2001, it seemed likely that unmanned aerial surveillance would be arriving sooner or later. The Australian Government has committed to acquiring seven MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicles from the United States Navy, once Northrop Grumman build them. They will be based at RAAF Edinburgh. South Australia is a leading national armoured fighting vehicle manufacturing and sustainment hub, undertaken by BAE Systems Australia and General Dynamics Land Systems – Australia
The St Kilda antenna site	Used to be called the Defence Science and Technology Organisation’s antenna site, now the DST Group. The Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN) comprises three over-the-horizon radar systems that use the ionosphere to monitor air and sea movements across at least 37,000 square kilometres. Invented by the Defence Science and Technology Group in South Australia (at the St Kilda aerial antenna site) the high-frequency system is supported from South Australia by Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems Australia. JORN’s command and control element, 1 Remote Sensor Unit, is based at RAAF Base Edinburgh.
Adelaide Airport	Project Sentinel is an outsourced maritime surveillance program using Dash 8 aircraft. Cobham Aviation Services (1 National Drive, Adelaide Airport) have the contract, which started in 2008, and which runs till 2021. The contracting agency is the Australian Border Force. The maintenance and modification of the aircraft is conducted in Adelaide, possibly at their maintenance facilities at the Adelaide Airport’s industrial complex.
Educational militarization, not located in these immediate precincts	LeFevre High School: VET Maritime Engineering certificate courses retargeted away from the fishing industry. Courses now lead towards apprenticeships at Techpoort in the shipbuilding area, Flinders Uni: Bachelor of Engineering (Naval Architecture), Adelaide Uni: Master of Marine Engineering (in association with ASC Pty Ltd) Science Alive: Main sponsor of this “family friendly science event” is Lockheed Martin, with SAAB closely behind She Flies (“enrichment” STEM training for girls 12 and older using drones) sponsored by many companies including The Australian Army. Staff who go into schools are not teachers and include ex- (or reserve) defense personnel. Publicity around these events seems to focus on how many young women now wish to “serve their country” in the military.