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  • Thursday, November 20, 2008

    TECHPORT AUSTRALIA POWERS AHEAD WITH OPENING OF SKILLS CENTRE

    Premier Mike Rann says today’s opening of the $5 million Maritime Skills Centre is the first major milestone in the development of the Government’s $300 million new state-of-the-art shipbuilding facility at Outer Harbor.

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  • Wednesday, November 12, 2008

    AIR WARFARE DESTROYER SYSTEMS CENTRE DEEDS SIGNED

    The Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP, announced today that the $8 billion Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) project is a step closer following the signing of a contract for its new headquarters in Adelaide, South Australia.

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  • Wednesday, November 12, 2008

    Raytheon Australia Announces South Australian Engineering Centre at Techport

    ADELAIDE – 13 November 2008: The mission systems integrator for the Hobart Class Air Warfare Destroyer program today announced that it had signed an agreement to lease a new facility in the commercial precinct of Techport Australia that will become the Raytheon Australia South Australian Engineering Centre.

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  • Monday, August 11, 2008

    ADELAIDE-BASED ULTRA ELECTRONICS WINS AWD CONTRACT

    Premier Mike Rann has welcomed the announcement that world-leading aerospace and defence electronics company Ultra Electronics has been chosen to supply the Undersea Warfare Sonar System for the Royal Australian Navy’s three air warfare destroyers (AWDs).

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  • Saturday, May 17, 2008

    JOINT STRIKE FIGHTERS – $10 BILLION IN CONTRACTS UP FOR GRABS

    Premier Mike Rann says the State Government will spearhead a bid to secure a slice of more than $10 billion in contracts identified by US Aeronautics giant Lockheed Martin as being available to Australianbased companies to help build the new Joint Strike Fighter aircraft.

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  • Tuesday, April 22, 2008

    TECHPORT AUSTRALIA PRECINCT NOW SELLING

    Stage One of Techport Australia's Supplier Precinct at Osborne has been released to the market and interest levels are high.

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  • Tuesday, April 22, 2008

    DEFENCE BOOM LURES ANOTHER AMERICAN FIRM

    Deputy Premier Kevin Foley today welcomed the arrival of another international defence procurement company, the US-based aerospace and defence multinational AAR, which has announced it is to establish an office at Technology Park at Mawson Lakes.

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  • Tuesday, April 08, 2008

    TECHPORT DEVELOPMENT ON TIME AND ON BUDGET

    Premier Mike Rann says about $250 miliion in contracts have already been let and more than $80 million has been spent building the massive Techport Australia shipbuilding facility on the Lefevre Peninsula.

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  • Wednesday, January 30, 2008

    TECHPORT AUSTRALIA TAKES SHAPE

    South Australian company Ferrocut has bought a 2.24 hectare slice of Techport Australia Supplier Precinct, becoming the first company to sign up to Australia's premier naval shipbuilding hub.

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  • Thursday, October 04, 2007

    AIR WARFARE DESTROYERS - THE FOUNDATION LAID

    I am pleased to announce the signing of the final contracts to build three Air Warfare Destroyers (AWDs) for the Royal Australian Navy.

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