Adelaide Now – Fix frigate issues or risk missing the boat

Call for new authority to oversee $45bn shipbuilding project FORMER state defence minister Martin Hamilton- Smith says concerns about the reliability and performance of the Future Frigates being built by BAE Systems are “very worrisome’’ and there is a chance South Australia could “lose the lot’’ if problems are not ironed out. The Australian reported…

CyberSecurity Connect – Building sovereign resilience into Australian technology supply chains

Jason Van der Schyff, COO of technology company SoftIron, explains how Australia can build sovereign resilience into its critical technology infrastructure. Australian supply chains, and the IT technology “stacks” on which they rely, are increasingly becoming a target for cyberattacks that aim to exploit the vertical to gain access to sensitive data, systems and devices.…

The Advertiser – Submarines Op Ed

Christopher Pyne says people who question the government’s handling of the Attack Class Submarine project are demonstrating “weirdness”, lack wisdom and intelligence and demonstrate a “lack of maturity. Mr Pyne says that the Australian polity finds the submarine project to big and complicated ‘ to ‘digest’. Perhaps it is because Australians fear the taxpayers biggest…

InDaily – SA has a lot more to lose if WA snaffles subs work

If sustainment of the Collins Class submarines goes west, it could set off a cascading chain of lost work for the Adelaide shipyards, writes former state defence industries minister Martin Hamilton-Smith. So why aren’t South Australian politicians fighting harder? Moving full cycle docking from ASC’s Osborne shipyard in SA to Fremantle in WA would be…