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With more than four decades of Australian Defence experience, Laing O’Rourke has established itself as an sympathetic approach through adopting modern methods of construction. award-winning contractor capable of delivering major Defence projects Australia-wide. The Australian-Singapore Military Training Initiative (ASMTI) Facilities project at Shoalwater Bay Training Area is a critical element of the ASMTI program to maximise Laing O’Rourke: Australia’s and Singapore’s Defence capabilities. This has brought about the need to develop unique training areas and facilities. • Delivers certainty, adopting modern methods of construction to ensure Throughout the delivery phase, the project is targeting and on track to achieve 80% continuity of Base operations and Defence capability; local participation to create a lasting legacy in Central Queensland. • Provides transparency, confidence and delivery assurance through the implementation of a digital delivery platform; Battlefield Airlifter Project, Qld • Ensures quality, productivity and effectiveness in stakeholder management The Battlefield Airlifter (BFA) Project is nearing completion reconfiguring RAAF Base with the use of Digital Engineering. Essentially building twice - first virtually, then Amberley to permanently house, maintain and operate the C-27J Spartan Battlefield in real life; and Airlifter aircraft. Through proactive stakeholder engagement there has been no unplanned disruption to base operations. • Champions local industry participation, ensuring a lasting legacy beyond the The squadron’s headquarters can be flexibly and efficiently reshaped to suit the physical construction, providing tangible benefits to local jobs, skills and the squadron’s profile throughout its lifecycle, reducing the facilities whole-of-life cost. regional economy. New pilot training infrastructure and facilities have been completed at five RAAF bases across Victoria, Western Australia and South Australia. A key feature has been delivering a turnkey pilot training solution that integrates physical and synthetic training environments. Our digital engineering led approach drove consistency in the facilities being for each base. And we minimised operational disruption though off-site manufacture and on-site assembly at East Sale for new Live in Accommodation. Currently delivering more than $3 billion worth of Defence projects including: Osborne North Development Project, SA As managing contractor, Laing O’Rourke is delivering, for Australian Naval Infrastructure, the complex construction, refurbishment and modernisation of purpose-built facilities specifically designed to enable the most effective build of Australia’s Future Submarine fleet. The project is showcasing Digital Engineering and a digital delivery platform, with the goal of creating the digital shipyard of the future. Larrakeyah Barracks Redevelopment and HMAS Coonawarra Facilities Future of Defence Support to Naval Operations, NT Laing O’Rourke is supporting Defence’s operations in the Northern Territory delivering both projects as managing contractor. The projects will provide upgrades and new facilities and infrastructure for Australian and visiting Defence personnel. The base’s urban neighbours and sensitive marine environment requires a sympathetic approach through adopting modern methods of construction. Defence projects Australia-wide. ASMTI Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Qld The Australian-Singapore Military Training Initiative (ASMTI) Facilities project at Shoalwater Bay Training Area is a critical element of the ASMTI program to maximise Australia’s and Singapore’s Defence capabilities. This has brought about the need to develop unique training areas and facilities. Delivers certainty, adopting modern methods of construction to ensure Throughout the delivery phase, the project is targeting and on track to achieve 80% continuity of Base operations and Defence capability; local participation to create a lasting legacy in Central Queensland. Provides transparency, confidence and delivery assurance through the implementation of a digital delivery platform; Battlefield Airlifter Project, Qld Ensures quality, productivity and effectiveness in stakeholder management The Battlefield Airlifter (BFA) Project is nearing completion reconfiguring RAAF Base with the use of Digital Engineering. Essentially building twice - first virtually, then Amberley to permanently house, maintain and operate the C-27J Spartan Battlefield in real life; and Airlifter aircraft. Through proactive stakeholder engagement there has been no unplanned disruption to base operations. Champions local industry participation, ensuring a lasting legacy beyond the The squadron’s headquarters can be flexibly and efficiently reshaped to suit the physical construction, providing tangible benefits to local jobs, skills and the squadron’s profile throughout its lifecycle, reducing the facilities whole-of-life cost. regional economy. AIR5428 Pilot Training Systems Facilities, Vic, WA, SA New pilot training infrastructure and facilities have been completed at five RAAF bases across Victoria, Western Australia and South Australia. A key feature has been delivering a turnkey pilot training solution that integrates physical and synthetic training environments. Our digital engineering led approach drove consistency in the facilities being delivered at each site, while accommodating the unique operational requirements for each base. And we minimised operational disruption though off-site manufacture and on-site assembly at East Sale for new Live in Accommodation. NAVY OUTLOOK NAVY OUTLOOK CONTENTS INTERVIEW WITH VICE ADMIRAL NAVY BACK IN THE RACE ..............33 RETENTION: THE PRODUCT MICHAEL NOONAN, AO, RAN .........09 Lieutenant Commander Nathan OF RESPECT ....................................50 From current projects to the plans for Lockhart was central to Navy’s A submariner by specialisation, the future, Vice Admiral Michael Noonan return to the Sydney to Hobart in Commodore Matt Buckley, RAN, shares his thoughts. 2020 for the first time since 1998. assumed the position of Director General Navy People in December A STRONG AND GROWING NAVY ..17 COMMODORE MICHAEL HARRIS, 2019 after two years as DG Maritime Until recently, Rear Admiral Chris Smith COMMODORE FLOTILLAS ............34 Operations and, before that, Commander was the Navy’s DG Littoral, a role that he Michael Harris, the Commander of Australia’s Submarine Force. So he is assumed in January 2019 after two years of Flotillas and Fleet Exercises, intimately acquainted with the importance as Commander of Navy’s Surface Force. tells how the Navy has continued of the human dimension in everything the He took the appointment of Deputy to work on its preparedness Navy does, an insight he has carried into Chief of Navy in September 2020. throughout 2020. his current