Air Warfare Destroyer Project | Project Opportunity

Project Details

The Air Warfare Destroyer project seeks to upgrade Australian maritime defence capability with three state-of-the-art ships. The ships will be the largest, most advanced and complex warships ever built in Australia and will introduce the AEGIS combat system to the Royal Australian Navy.

The first of these Air Warfare Destroyers will be delivered in late 2014, followed by the second and third ships in early-2016 and mid-2017 respectively.

The SEA 4000 –Air Warfare Destroyer Program will use an alliance-based contracting strategy for the detailed design and construction phase of the Program.

On 21 July the Australian Government selected the F100 design by Navantia for three Air Warfare Destroyers . Navantia work with the AWD Alliance (Defence Materiel Organisation, shipbuilder ASC and Raytheon Australia) to deliver the three AWDs to the Royal Australian Navy. Navantia SA, a company with more than 250 years of experience, is 100% owned by the Spanish Government.

Raytheon Australia has been confirmed as the mission systems integrator for the AWDs. Raytheon Australia will be contracted to complete the design, development and procurement of the Australianized Combat System.

Since entering service with the Spanish Navy, F100s, among their many other tasks, have worked alongside the United States Navy (USN) as the first foreign Aegis equipped ship to be fully integrated into a USN Carrier Strike Group and has successfully been deployed as the flagship of NATOs Maritime Group Standing Reaction Force.

Australian Industry Participation

Australian Industry will deliver products and services for around 55 per cent of AWD Programme over the next 15 years which will be followed by high value through life support contracts into the middle of the century.

The AWD Program will provide vast opportunities for Australian industry with significant work for sub-contractors throughout the country. A key aim of the AWD Program is to help ensure the sustainability of the Australian shipbuilding and repair sector. The ships will require the assembly of approximately 500,000 components and the engagement of hundreds of companies throughout Australia.

While Adelaide based ASC will conduct the final assembly of the AWDs, around 70 per cent of the ship modules will be built at other shipbuilding sites around Australia, potentially including sites in Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.

The AWD Programme will eventually employ around 3,000 Australians in a variety of engineering and related fields working for a range of companies and suppliers throughout Australia.

Supplier Registration

The AWD Alliance has engaged the Industry Capability Network (ICN) to provide the AWD Alliance Supplier Portal. The Supplier Portal will enhance the Alliance’s ability to efficiently collect and retrieve data on the companies that wish to register their interest in the AWD Program.

To access the ICN Supplier Portal CLICK HERE or go click on the above red flashing Register Interest link on the top right side of this page.

Contacts

Industry Capability Network South Australa

Level 11, 178 North Terrace

Adelaide SA 5001

Mr Darren Hill

Ph: (08) 8303 2268

Email darren.hill@state.sa.gov.au

Website: www.icn.org.au

Raytheon Australia Pty Ltd

AWD Contracts Manager

50 Waterloo Road