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Australia Sets $36.4bn DefenceUpkeep– Warfare.Today Facebook Twitter Current Military Operations Defence Industry News Defence Industry Events, Exhibitions and Tradeshows Warfare.Today AT THE HEART OF THE FIGHTING Home About News HM Armed Forces US Military Tech Cyber SitReps Ops Events Calendar Australia Defence Industry News Australia Sets $36.4bn DefenceUpkeepPosted on May 10, 2018 by Liam, Editor, Warfare.Today Military Operations Top Priority in Australia’s 2018-2019 DefenceUpkeepThe Turnbull Government’s first priority is the safety and security of Australia and its people. The 2018–19Upkeepwill provide national and economic security, while generating thousands of Australian jobs. TheUpkeepprovides funding to protract to deliver: — Australia’s ongoing commitments to Defence Operations virtually the globe, ensuring safety and security at home and secure maritime confines — the sufficiency plans set out in the 2016 Defence White Paper through the Defence Integrated Investment Program — the strategies outlined in the Defence Industry Policy Statement to reshape and refocus the Defence and industry partnership and create increasingly jobs. The comprehensive, responsible long-term plans for Australia’s defence set out in the 2016 Defence White Paper, and reinforced in the 2017 Foreign Policy White Paper, protract to ensure that we develop the sufficiency needed to protect Australia and to secure our interests in the coming decades, despite growing global uncertainty and complexity. Therefore, the 2018-19Upkeepmaintains the Government’s transferral to provide Defence (inclusive of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD)) with a stable and sustainable funding growth path, with the Defence upkeep growing to two per cent of GDP by 2020–21. The Government will provide Defence (inclusive of ASD) with $36.4 billion in 2018–19 and $160.7 billion over the Forward Estimates.StandingMilitary Operations As part of Australia’s ongoing transferral to security and stability at home and virtually the globe, the Government has well-set to protract funding major operations. Australia currently has virtually 2,300 military personnel deployed virtually the world, including on operations wideness the Middle East and Afghanistan. Ongoing terrorist attacks underscore the importance of Australia’s significant contribution to the US-led international counter-ISIS coalition in Iraq and Syria. For this reason, Australia has virtually 600 personnel deployed as part of Operation OKRA. The Government is single-minded to profitable the Government of Afghanistan to tenancy its security and to prevent the nation then rhadamanthine a safe-haven for terrorist networks. Operation HIGHROAD will protract to provide security, minutiae assistance, and sufficiency towers for Afghan institutions. The ADF is moreover fully engaged in the near region, as part of the Government’s transferral to securing Australia’s maritime borders. Additionally, we are supporting the Government of Papua New Guinea for that nation’s hosting of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation meetings in November 2018. Major domestic events to vamp Defence support in 2018 have included the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit 2018, the Commonwealth Games in Brisbane and the Invictus Games in Sydney. Defence support is an important component of the security arrangements required to unhook a unscratched and secure environment for these events. Defence has moreover provided assistance to the starchy polity in response to fires, floods and cyclones in unauthentic States and Territories. $200bn for Australia’s Integrated Investment Program Over the next decade from 2018–19, the $200 billion Integrated Investment Program demonstrates the Government’s transferral to creating a increasingly potent and capable Defence Force, through programs such as: — The continuous naval shipbuilding program, which will invest virtually $90 billion to develop the Royal Australian Navy of the future, while creating a strong and sustainable Australian naval shipbuilding industry with increasingly Australian jobs. — The 5th generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, withal with the vanquishment of EA-18G Growlers and P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft, will requite the Royal Australian Air Force unprecedented sufficiency to gainsay future threats to our nation. — The purchase of a squadron of newGainsayReconnaissance Vehicles to protect our troops. The overwhelming majority of the 211 vehicles will be manufactured and delivered by Australian workers, using Australian steel. $90bn Naval Shipbuilding Program We are investing virtually $90 billion in the continuous build of new submarines, major surface combatants and minor naval vessels. A continuous naval shipbuilding program will modernise our naval fleet, support economic growth, maximise Australian industry involvement and secure thousands of Australian jobs for decades to come. The Government continues to progress significant work to support the success of the Naval Shipbuilding Plan: — We are investing increasingly than $50 billion in the Future Submarine Program, the largest and most ramified Defence vanquishment Australia has overly undertaken. In January 2018, a $700 million contract was signed with Lockheed Martin Australia, supporting approximately 200 jobs in South Australia as minutiae of the Future SubmarineGainsaySystem progresses. — In November 2017, the Government spoken Australia’s investment of up to $4 billion for 12 Offshore Patrol Vessels, which will be designed and built under prime contractor Lürssen. Construction is set to embark on the first vessel later this year. This sufficiency will have an important role in protecting our confines and will provide greater range and endurance than the existing patrol wend fleet. — Australia has established the Naval Shipbuilding College, which is working with Australian education providers to identify, train and upskill workers for the naval shipbuilding enterprise. — The Government will soon select a designer-builder for the Future Frigate Program, which will unhook nine anti-submarine warfare frigates to the Australian Defence Force (ADF). — Construction of the first Pacific PatrolWendbegan in April 2017, and first wordage is planned for later in 2018. $19.7bn for DefenceSufficiencyInvestment The Defence Integrated Investment Program details Defence’s future sufficiency requirements to ensure the men and women in the ADF have the platforms and equipment they need to alimony Australia secure, whether that be at sea, in the air and space, on the land or in the cyber domain. Over the last 12 months, the Government has single-minded virtually $19.7 billion to new capabilities to strengthen our Defence Force, including: — A $1.2 billion investment to significantly upgrade Australia’s once world leading Jindalee Operational Radar Network which detects and tracks air and maritime targets from Australia’s northern approaches. — The selection of the gainsay management system for Australia’s squadron of nine Future Frigates, which will maximise the vessels’ air warfare capabilities and enable these ships to engage threat missiles at long range, which is vital given the ongoing minutiae of missiles with wide range and speed. — Approval of $207 million to uplift the Nulka program, which will strengthen the anti-ship missile defence sufficiency and ensure the system remains at the wearing whet of sufficiency into the future. Supporting Australia’s Defence Industry A strong, sovereign Australian defence industry is vital to delivering Australia’s defence capability. It is moreover front and centre of the Government’s plan for jobs and growth in the Australian economy. The last year has seen the Government make significant progress in establishing the initiatives and policy settings that will guide our defence industry to a sustainable and internationally competitive future. In January 2018, the Government released the Defence Export Strategy which provides a systematic plan to grow Australian defence exports and support Australian industry to unzip export success. In March 2018, the Government released the expanded Australian Military Sales Catalogue showcasing a range of export ready Australian defence industry capabilities. Complementing our major policy initiatives such as the Defence IndustrialSufficiencyPlan, the last year has seen the roll out of our strengthened Australian IndustrySufficiency(AIC) Plan. The strengthened AIC Plan is a requirement for major wanted equipment projects of $20 million and whilom and is driving greater Australian industry participation in meeting Defence’s sufficiency needs. In its first year of operation the Centre for Defence IndustrySufficiencyhas established itself as the ‘single point of entry’ to Defence for small and medium enterprises. The Centre tried facilitation services for 352 small and medium enterprises, issued over $1 million inSufficiencyImprovement Grants and presented to an unscientific 3,000 participants at industry briefings in support of the continuous naval shipbuilding public presentations alone. Since its launch in December 2016, the Defence Innovation Hub has awarded 37 contracts totaling increasingly than $56 million, and manages a portfolio of legacy innovation projects worth approximately $62 million. The Defence Innovation Hub is expected to expand on this success as the program matures and builds towards a full portfolio of innovation investment. Local Australian Jobs Supporting the DefenceManorThe Government continues to invest in upgrading and expanding the Defence estate, comprising hundreds of bases, facilities and other sites right wideness Australia, particularly in regional communities. This investment ensures that the ADF has the infrastructure it needs to operate and support our key capabilities. Key to this upgrade in the Defence manor is local industry. The Government has commenced a pilot of a Local IndustrySufficiencyPlan program for major Defence infrastructure projects to ensure that local industry has the weightier opportunity to be involved in our unprecedented investment in Defence capability. New Pilot Schemes Include HMAS Cerberus Redevelopment Pilots under this Plan include: — The Explosive Ordnance Logistics Reform Program, a $230.9 million project tent 12 Defence sites wideness Australia. — The Shoalwater Bay Training Area Redevelopment in Queensland, an approximately $135 million substantial infrastructure upgrade project, which will see 80 per cent of the construction sub-contractors come from the Livingston and Rockhampton regions. — The Townsville Field Training Area Mid-Term Refresh in Queensland, an approximately $24 million project to ensure the Training Area is fit-for-purpose, unscratched and environmentally compliant. — The HMAS Cerberus Redevelopment Project in Victoria, an approximately $463 million project. The Government is moreover single-minded to maximising opportunities for North and Central Queensland industry during implementation of the Australia-Singapore Military Training Initiative. These investments and initiatives will protract to ensure that we protract to implement the plans set out in the 2016 Defence White Paper to alimony Australia unscratched and secure, while maximising the involvement of Australian industry in our unprecedented sufficiency investment. 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