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The sustainment contract will create over 75 new jobs in Nowra at Sikorsky Australia’s maintenance and logistics support facility, building on its existing workforce of 200.
Labor last year put on hold plans to buy a fourth squadron of F-35s and said it would instead redirect some of that investment towards long-range missiles.
Chaplain Haydn Lea found Sergeant William O'Shea's medals last year in a Perth military memorabilia shop and noticed that they were missing a Royal Air Force Bomber Command clasp, which were awarded decades after the war to those who served in Bomber Command.
Led by the North Australia Centre for Autonomous Systems at Charles Darwin University and supported by the Queensland Defence Science Alliance, the project is looking to adapt hybrid two-stroke engine drones for long-range cold chain operations such as medical drops.
Speaking before Senate Estimates on Monday, CEO Rob Sharp said Airservices had found out about the naval exercises at 9:58am, 30 minutes after they had started, as reported in The Australian Financial Review. A hazard alert was issued within two minutes, with 49 flights ultimately diverted.
The new facility doubles Omni’s footprint in Jandakot, creating opportunities for additional employment as the company continues to support the Commonwealth and Western Australian government’s contracts.
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