Partners

Principal partner

For more than 60 years KBR has successfully supported delivery of some of Australia’s most complex and largest nation building projects. With around 2,000 employees across Australia, KBR combines global expertise with Australian experience to deliver technology enabled, full program lifecycle solutions.

KBR helps ensure mission success on land, air, sea, space and cyberspace for our customers. KBR’s combined experience and expertise delivers the right solutions, technology and equipment at the right time.

Across the globe, KBR employs approximately 30,000 people performing diverse, complex and mission-critical roles in 34 countries. KBR’s areas of expertise include engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity.

KBR is proud to work with its customers across the world to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.

Visit www.kbr.com

Platinum partner

We are a global professional services and investment management firm that specializes in real estate. We use the most advanced technology to create rewarding opportunities, amazing spaces, and sustainable real estate solutions for our clients, our people, and our communities. In Australia, our national Defence-specialised teams continue to maintain, support, and enhance the Defence Estate through our expertise in the full property lifecycle, including our commitment to sustainability.

Our range of expertise offers property solutions for specific initiatives, ongoing program requirements, and rapid responses. Armed with years of knowledge and experience, we are here to provide direct support across the Defence operational and real estate environment.

Visit our website to learn more: https://www.jll.com.au/en/industries/defence

Gold partners

Investment NSW is the NSW Government’s economic development and attraction agency, with a mandate to reinforce NSW as the most desirable place in the world to visit, study, invest and do business.

We help drive the state’s economic growth and transformation by showcasing NSW business, events, tourism and education for new markets and investors in Australia and around the world.

In doing so we maximise opportunity and jobs growth by working with companies looking to set up or expand in NSW, supporting NSW businesses ready to scale up and go global, and promoting the best NSW offers for business, visitors, students and global talent.

Ventia is a leading essential infrastructure services provider in Australia and New Zealand, proudly providing the services that keeps infrastructure working for our communities. Ventia has access to a combined workforce of more than 35,000 people, operating in over 400 sites across Australia and New Zealand. With a strategy to redefine service excellence by being client focused, innovative and sustainable, Ventia operates across a broad range of industry segments, including defence, social infrastructure, water, electricity and gas, environmental services, resources, telecommunications and transport.

Gold and Dessert partner

iDiC’s vision is to break the back of poverty of Indigenous communities by supporting Indigenous entrepreneurs and growing sustainable businesses.

As a single point deployment project and account manager, iDiC collaborates with over 130 Indigenous-owned and controlled consortium partners to deliver a wide range of services to our strategic clients whilst supporting the sustainable development of sovereign capability.

With a strong national presence, our expertise lies in offering both direct and indirect procurement services to support large-scale defence and infrastructure projects. As a supply chain aggregator, iDiC serves as a conduit for clients to engage with the Australian Indigenous business sector, enhancing their supply chain competitiveness while fulfilling Indigenous engagement and policy requirements.

Supporting partners

Analytical Progression is a data consultancy firm providing comprehensive data and system due diligence tailored for Defence digital transformation programs. We have a deep understanding of existing Defence infrastructure while placing a firm emphasis on enhancing user experience.

Through refined research principles, we anticipate both current and emerging data themes, crafting solutions that not only seamlessly merge with legacy systems but also prioritise intuitive interfaces for military personnel.

We strive to bring the worlds of data and design together and enjoy applying this methodology across multiple Defence programs.

Babcock Australasia is defence and aerospace company delivering service solutions to enhance our customers’ capabilities and critical assets. Our business is underpinned by a deep understanding of technology integration and engineering, infrastructure management and specialist training. Part of Babcock International Group, we help our customers around the world to cost effectively improve the capability, reliability and availability of their most critical assets.

Industry Capability Network (ICN) are experienced industry procurement and supply chain specialists who connect Australian and New Zealand businesses to projects large and small.

In the Defence industry, ICN helps primes identify suitable Australian suppliers with the capabilities to assist in delivering Australian and New Zealand defence projects. Our flagship platform, ICN Gateway makes it easy for companies to submit EOIs for defence projects and showcase their unique capabilities. There are currently over 50 defence projects listed on ICN Gateway and in 2022-23 there were over 882 defence contracts awarded with a value of $1.2B to Australian and New Zealand suppliers.

Over 15,000 suppliers with defence capability use ICN and are amongst over 90,000 Australian and New Zealand SMEs registered on Gateway.

ICN’s ecosystem, which includes an end-to-end offering, helps buyers, suppliers and governments test the market utilising Gateway, manage operational procurement through Procure by ICN, obtain real time market intelligence through Insight by ICN, and map supply chains through Perspective by ICN.

Our passionate Industry Specialists facilitate workshops and roadshows to help connect SMEs to defence primes. Our strategic partnerships add value to our core offering, which is focussed on fulfilling Australian Industry Participation (AIP) guidelines and requirements.

Next year, ICN celebrates 40 years of connecting local suppliers with major projects, and there’s never been a better time to join the growing ICN community.

Killara Services is one of the fastest immerging Indigenous businesses in Australia. We are leading the way in creating sustainable employment opportunities for Indigenous Australians within the Cleaning & Soft Services Industry. We offer soft service solutions to Defence, Government and Commercial clients across Australia.

Our capability extends from 200sqm2 grass roots Indigenous organisations, 35,000sqm2 A grade commercial buildings through to 100,000sqm2 Defence Bases. We are also an industry leader in cleaning innovation through cutting edge robotic technology within our cleaning contracts.

Our clients range from Australia's largest Integrated Facility Management firms through to various Government departments and agencies, and some of Australia’s largest private companies.
Our Indigenous engagement outcomes are some of the highest across the facilities industry.

Luerssen Australia brings almost 150 years of shipbuilding and sustainment knowledge to Australia, as the Prime Contractor for the Arafura Class Offshore Patrol Vessels.

We are employing Australian workers, in Australian shipyards, using Australian steel to build the Royal Australian Navy the vessel it needs for the future.

We are passionate about strengthening the sovereign supply chain, and have achieved close to 64% Australian Industry Content and are continuing to increase this as the Program progresses. We are committed to these partnerships to ensure our supply chain is agile and responsive for future opportunities, such as corvettes or light frigates.

We have a united vision with our supply partners – we stand ready together to deliver the vessels the Royal Australian Navy needs to fight and win at sea now and into the future.

We are extremely proud to be delivering a sovereign naval shipbuilding capability, and shaping the future of shipbuilding in Australia.

Sitzler is a highly regarded Australian construction company delivering quality projects safely, in an environmentally and socially conscious manner.

With a long history of delivering projects throughout the Northern Territory, South Australia, and Western Australia with the capacity to deliver on even the largest projects, Sitzler has become a preferred constructor for projects in all major industry sectors including Defence and Space Innovation, Civil and Infrastructure, Commercial and Industrial and Community and Civic.

Recent appointments to R8116 AIR7000 Phase 1B Forward Operating Base Facility, RAAF Base Tindal, in the Northern Territory and commencement of works on the Land19 Phase 7B, Short Range Ground Based Air Defence Facilities project at RAAF base Edinburgh South Australia, continue to add to their Defence project portfolio.

Dessert partner

Willyama Services Pty Ltd was established in 2016 and is a 100% Indigenous and Veteran owned, services company with a heritage in cybersecurity nationally. Our Vision and purpose is to empower Indigenous people and communities by breaking entrenched cycles of disadvantage by providing training, work readiness and potential careers across industries.

We have our National Early Professionals Program to support the growth of Indigenous IT skills and currently have multiple Indigenous Interns. This program aligns with vocational Education and Training programs nationally through local tertiary educational institutions.

Willyama Indigenous Social Enterprises (WISE) strives to promote and advocate indigenous organisations capabilities to the market. WISE also provides cultural awareness programs and services to industry and community to promote indigenous culture in the workplace.

Research partner

Coin and Charity partner

It is everyone’s obligation to support those who serve our country and show pride for their commitment.
Bravery Trust is a national military charity which provides veterans and their families with specialised financial assistance to empower and improve lives.
It is our vision that all serving and ex-serving members of the Australian Defence Force are not financially disadvantaged due being injured during service.
We provide financial education, financial counselling and financial aid. Our service is free, independent and founded on an in-depth understanding of Defence.
70% of those we support are aged 50 years or younger.
To show your support for those who serve, join our upcoming Bravery Trek.

Charity partners

In 1923 Legacy made a promise to help veterans’ families carry on with their lives after the loss or injury of their loved one.

It was a simple promise that Legacy keeps today; providing the same stability, guidance, and assistance that a partner would normally provide to his or her family.

Our work can mean a child gets an education and a fair go, a widow is not disadvantaged and alone and a family is not torn apart by the effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or other physiological injuries.

Invictus Australia encourages veterans and their families to connect and engage with their communities through sport. Whether participating or volunteering at a grassroots level, to competing internationally, we leverage the power of sport to proactively foster good health and to aid in recovery, rehabilitation and reintegration.

We bring together sporting, community and veteran organisations to collaborate and break down the barriers to sport participation for veterans and their families. We promote the physical, social and emotional benefits of sport for all, and shine a light on the unique needs of younger veterans, particularly the challenges associated with transitioning from military to civilian life.

Formally known as Veteran Sport Australia (VSA), Invictus Australia was launched at the conclusion of the Invictus Games Sydney 2018.
The Games acknowledged the sacrifices made by defence service personnel and pledged continuing support to veterans and their families. Invictus Australia is the embodiment of the promise that the Games would be more than just a one-off event.

Invictus means unconquered.

At Invictus Australia, we recognise the unconquerable spirit of the people who serve their country—the very people we exist to serve.

We are a not-for-profit registered charity and rely on the generous support of government, corporate Australia and the general public.

The Invictus Games illuminated the healing power of sport for veterans. Invictus Australia is committed to helping the Defence community remain active and connected through sport—even when the bright lights of the Games have dimmed.

Soldier On is a national charity, supporting more than 10,000 veterans and their family members through Health and Wellbeing services, Employment Support, Learning and Education Programs, as well as Participation and Social Connection activities. Services help individuals build resilience and create meaningful connections with family, community and employers. These programs are made possible through the generous support of the Australian community and Soldier On’s Corporate Partners.

Soldier On is a leader in supporting those who have served and continue to serve in the Australian Defence Force. With an exemplary track record of providing practical and emotional assistance critical to building successful post-service lives, Soldier On is recognised as an essential first port of call for veterans and their families as they transition from the Defence Force to civilian life.

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