BAE Systems join global supply chain programme

BAE Systems has become the seventh major defence company to sign a Global Supply Chain Deed with the Department of Defence.
Signed by Defence Materiel Minister Jason Clare and new BAE Systems Australia CEO David Allott at Parliament House in Canberra recently, the supply chain deed sees the company join Boeing, Raytheon, Thales, Eurocopter, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman in Defence’s Global Supply Chain programme.

“When the programme was established everyone agreed that if it could provide a 10-fold return on the government’s investment it would be a roaring success. To date it has delivered more than a 30-fold return on investment with more than $356 million in contracts awarded to Australian industry,” Clare said in a statement.

“Australian SMEs have been the big winners, winning about 90 per cent of the value of these contracts,” he added.

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