AllLEFT HIGH AND DRY, AN AIDN NATIONAL OP-ED
Left High and Dry An AIDN National Op-ed Written by AIDN National CEO Brent Clark “The long-feared day arrived, on May 1st, with the PLAN launching an invasion convoy across the Taiwan Straits. President Biden responded to calls from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen for support, with assets from the third and seventh fleets joining into a […]
AIDN NATIONAL 4TH QUARTER NEWSLETTER 2020
AIDN National 4th Quarter Newsletter 2020
AIDN NATIONAL ANNOUNCES THE ELECTION OF NEW BOARD MEMBERS AND THE APPOINTMENT OF NEW CHAIR
AIDN National has elected three new board members for a two-year tenure on the AIDN National Board. The newly elected members are Emily Frizell, Toff Idrus and Graham Priestnall. All three members bring with them a vast amount of experience working in the Australian Defence Industry sector and join ongoing members Carl Quarterman and Julie […]
A MACHIAVELLIAN TALE – OR A TALE OF SELF-RELIANCE
A Machiavellian Tale – Or a Tale of Self-Reliance Italy from 1450 through 1550 was a tumultuous time. The land comprised a series of independent city-states which were often warring with each other, with the central papal authority and with external influences from France, Spain and Austria. The Princes of the city-states were certainly living in (to […]
SOVEREIGNTY AND THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE ATTACK CLASS SUBMARINE MAIN BATTERIES
Sovereignty and the Curious Case of the Attack Class Submarine Main Batteries By Brent Clark As the debate rages as to how best achieve the Governments stated requirement to establish a sovereign industrial capability to ensure that Australia can be as self-reliant as possible when it comes to the support of the nation’s defence equipment a strange decision […]
THE IP PARADOX
By Brent Clark There has been much recent comment in the press regarding the underwhelming levels of local work resulting from the Government’s generational increase in investment in Defence capability. Discussion has arisen over the merits or otherwise of the AIC programme, and on Defence’s statements to the effect that they have little control over the primes’ subcontracting. This […]
AIDN NATIONAL 3RD QUARTER 2020 NEWSLETTER
The AIDN National 3rd Quarter 2020 Newsletter is available below. AIDN National 3rd Quarter Newsletter 2020.pdf
FIRST 90PC, THEN 60PC, FRENCH STILL WON’T COMMIT TO LOCAL SUB PARTS
A commitment by the French designer of the navy’s new $90 billion fleet of submarines to source at least 60 per cent of components from Australian companies is yet to be locked in, more than six months after it was offered amid complaints local industry is being denied work. Despite the Defence Department pressing Naval […]
THE (UNNECESSARY) CHALLENGES FOR THE AUSTRALIAN HIGH TECHNOLOGY SMES SUPPLYING TO DEFENCE
The (unnecessary) challenges for the Australian high technology SMEs supplying to Defence Brent Clark | Canberra A quick look at ADM’s list of the Top 40 Defence contractors reveals that it is dominated by local subsidiaries of foreign owned prime contractors, with only one single Australian supplier of high technology systems on the list (EOS). […]
DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY REVIEW ARTICLE – AIDN’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE STRATEGIC DEFENCE UPDATE AND FORCE STRUCTURE PLAN
AIDN’s Perspective on the Strategic Defence Update and Force Structure Plan By Brent Clark, 30 July 2020 1 July this year, the Prime Minister announced the strategic defence update and the associated force structure plan in order to achieve the outcomes required in securing Australia’s interests in an evolving and increasingly complex geopolitical environment. AIDN’s […]