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PODCAST: Bolstering domestic capabilities in the wake of coronavirus – Robert Nioa, NIOA

Robert Nioa

COVID-19 has shone a light on just how critical sovereign industry and manufacturing is to Australia’s national security.

COVID-19 has shone a light on just how critical sovereign industry and manufacturing is to Australia’s national security.

On this episode of the Defence Connect Podcast,  host Phil Tarrant is joined by Robert Nioa, managing director of NIOA, Australia’s largest privately-owned supplier of small arms and ammunition to the sports shooter, law enforcement and military markets. 

Nioa shares the lessons learned through the evolution of the business since its establishment in 1973 and how those lessons can inform lessons for a resurgent Australian manufacturing capacity in the post-COVID world. 

Enjoy the podcast,

The Defence Connect team

Listen to previous episodes of the Defence Connect podcast:

Episode 434: SPOTLIGHT: Mission engineering – a missing piece of the capability puzzle, with Downer’s Rachel Hatton and Nathan Rickard
Episode 433: SPOTLIGHT: Introducing the Australian Digital Defence Industry Matrix, with BenchOn’s Tim Walmsley
Episode 432: SPOTLIGHT: What does sovereignty mean in a post-DIDS industry? With Stephen Kowal, CEO of Atturra
Episode 431: PODCAST: Developing Army’s hand-to-hand combatives program, with Paul Cale
Episode 430: PODCAST: Aussie innovation supporting navies around the world, with Jeffrey Hawkins, Pivot Maritime International
Episode 429: PODCAST: Commercialisation essential to the success of space and defence industry, with Brian Lim
Episode 428: PODCAST: Firebrand topics on Ukraine, Israel, and Australian conscription, with Corporal Matthew ‘Willy’ Williams OAM
Episode 427: PODCAST: Unpacking the surface combatant review with the Honourable Kim Beazley AC
Episode 426: PODCAST: WA ready, willing and able to support defence industry opportunities – Paul Papalia CSC MLA, Minister for Defence Industry and Veterans Issues
Episode 425: PODCAST: Unpacking the independent analysis into Navy’s surface combatant fleet