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RNS Number : 6924D  Babcock International Group PLC  21 October 2022

Babcock awarded major capability upgrade programme by Australia Defence Force

 21 October 2022

 

Babcock International Group PLC ("Babcock" or "the Group") is pleased to
announce that Babcock Australia has been awarded a major multi-year programme
to upgrade the Australian Defence Force's Defence High Frequency (HF)
Communications System.

 

The contract, which follows the announcement of Babcock's selection as
preferred partner in July 2022, is worth AU$877 million (c£492 million) over
10 years. It will see Babcock lead the operation and support of the customer's
existing HF capability, while delivering a comprehensive technology upgrade
programme.

 

Starting in October 2023 under the JP9101 - Enhanced Defence High Frequency
Communications System program, the new system will provide Australian and
allied armed forces with the ability to securely communicate using voice and
other data from almost any location across the globe.

 

Through this agreement, Australia will join the New Zealand and United Kingdom
in selecting Babcock as their partner in the engineering, operation and
support of long range, resilient strategic HF communications. Babcock is now
the largest provider of strategic HF communications in the world, built on a
common mission system architecture that is both scalable and interoperable.

 

Babcock's principal partner for the program, Lockheed Martin Australia, will
support in the delivery of mission system elements that will grow a sovereign
industrial capability solution to provide through life support over the
duration of the program and beyond.

 

Australian industry will play a significant part in the delivery of the
programme, with most of the works completed in Australia.

 

Babcock CEO David Lockwood said:

 

"Our selection demonstrates our ability to bring together complex and critical
digital defence capability in an area of increasing importance to our
customers around the world.

 

"In a modern threat environment, access to local communication infrastructure
or satellite communication cannot be assured. Having a communications
capability that can work seamlessly with the Australian Defence Force and its
allies is essential."

 

At the heart of the solution is Babcock's Intelligent Network and Serial
Protocol Interface for Radio Equipment (INSPIRE), which provides a step-change
in ease of upgrade and re-configuration.

 

 

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For further information:

Andrew Gollan, Director of Investor Relations
+44 (0)7936 039004

Kate Hill, Group Director of Communications
+44 (0)20 7355 5312

 

Tulchan Communications

Olivia Peters / Harry
Cameron
+44 (0)20 7353 4200

 

 

 

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