21 December 2022
Navantia Australia Smart Sustainment Manager, Dr Alberto González Cantos, has been awarded an Honorary Appointment as a Visiting Fellow of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. This appointment comes as Navantia Australia and UTS formed the Joint Institute in June, which combines Navantia Australia’s professional experience and industry insights and UTS’s academic expertise in engineering and IT solutions, as well as a focus on research with real-world and commercial applications.
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28 November 2022
Last week teams from secondary schools across New South Wales battled it out to find out who would be this year’s NSW State Finals of the SUBS in Schools Technology Challenge™ held recently at Sydney Motorsport Park. Congratulations to all the teams and to the winners – Atlas Systems, Orca, Odyssey, AquariUS, Hydro Hunters, Bubble Scout and Titanic II. Navantia Australia participated as judges in the program for the first time.
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22 November 2022
From one Spanish expatriate to the largest dedicated sovereign naval design and engineering centre in Australia, Navantia Australia has cemented itself as the Royal Australian Navy’s sovereign design partner over its ten years of operation.
Providing the designs, sustainment, and through life support for over 60% of the Navy’s fleet, Navantia Australia has committed to delivering step change capability to the Australian Defence Force through a locally developed workforce. Celebrating a decade of Navantia Australia, we reflect on the projects, the people and vision that has driven the company over the past ten years.
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17 November 2022
British-led Team Resolute, comprising BMT, Harland & Wolff and Navantia UK, has been appointed as the preferred bidder to deliver three crucial support ships to the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA). The £1.6 billion contract (before inflation) to manufacture the vessels providing munitions, stores and provisions to the Royal Navy’s aircraft carriers, destroyers and frigates deployed at sea, is subject to HM Treasury and Ministerial approval. Team Resolute will be making a significant investment into the UK and help to level up UK Government defence spend across the whole Union. We will create high quality UK jobs, apprenticeships and four facilities across the UK which will have shipbuilding capabilities fit for the 21st century.
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18 August 2022
Landing Craft Australia (LCA), a joint venture between Navantia Australia and UGL, recently visited Bossong Engineering’s Welshpool facilities where pre-production of sections may take place if LCA is successful in its bid to deliver the Australian Army’s future littoral manoeuvre capability.
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11 May 2022
Navantia Australia and UGL form the Littoral Alliance in a joint effort for the Australian Army’s LCM-8 replacement project, LAND 8710-1 Littoral Manoeuvre Vessel Medium (LMV-M).
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10 May 2022
Navantia Australia and University of Technology Sydney to form an industry-led joint research institute to develop digital technologies.
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8 April 2022
The cutting of the first steel plate has taken place 6th of April in Navantia’s shipyard in Ferrol (A Coruña, Spain), where all five F-110 class frigates will be built. The event was also attended by Spanish Vice Prime Minister for Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz; Finance Minister María Jesús Montero, along with Navantia’s Chairman, Ricardo Domínguez; VP for Shipbuilding, Agustín Álvarez; VP for Systems and Services, Donato Martínez, and Ferrol shipyard's director, Eduardo Dobarro, among other authorities.
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31 July 2018
NUSHIP Brisbane is the second of three destroyers being built and integrated by the AWD Alliance, comprised of the Department of Defence, Raytheon Australia and ASC Shipbuilding with support from Navantia Australia. In the coming months, NUSHIP Brisbane will sail from Adelaide to Sydney where she will be commissioned into service by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
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16 July 2018
Major naval shipbuilding and sustainment company Navantia Australia has added its support to The Australian Sailor Monument national project, which will recognise the central role of sailors in the discovery, settlement, development and defence of Australia.
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