Brett Sangster, managing director of Downer Defence and National Security, said, "We are pleased to finalise the integration of two great companies under the Downer brand. As a fully-integrated defence and national security business unit owned by an Australian company, we are committed to building sovereign Defence capability."

Canberra-based AGIS provides specialist professional services across a range of project and capability life-cycle services in the disciplines of: 

• Project/program management;
• Engineering and technical services;
• Integrated logistics support;
• Business and commercial support;
• Capability development; and
• Information communication technology. 

AGIS focuses on supporting the Department of Defence, supporting a range of state-of-the-art emerging and in-service capability programs across the land, maritime, air and joint systems environment. 

"Our customers are at the heart of everything we do so as we integrate, we remain agile and focused on our defence and national security customers," Sangster added. 

Envista provides strategy, architecture and delivery solutions in complex and security sensitive client environments

Since its foundation in 2005, Envista purposefully set out to assemble a team of professionals who collectively represent the highest levels of experience and expertise in the industry. Envista looks for talented individuals who have significant experience delivering outcomes for large and complex ICT programs and projects including production/operational environments, both domestically and internationally.

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"We are also taking this opportunity to extend our services to the critical infrastructure sector. As Australia’s leading integrated services provider, Downer is uniquely positioned to apply the expertise and experience of AGIS and Envista to our critical infrastructure customers," Sangster said. 

Downer’s Defence and National Security business plans, delivers and manages capability by providing a range of professional and managed services across program management, information and communication technology, systems engineering, integrated security (including cyber security and crisis management), and emerging technology (including artificial intelligence and machine learning). 

Stephen Kuper

Steve has an extensive career across government, defence industry and advocacy, having previously worked for cabinet ministers at both Federal and State levels.