​The Northern Territory Defence Support Industry Development Strategy 2007-2017 aims to identify the industry priorities to be pursued over the decade by government and industry. It aims to ensure the benefits and opportunities offered by the Defence presence are realised through the provision of high quality reliable support to Defence operations.

In developing this strategy, AIDN-NT and the Northern Territory Government agreed on a vision and mission for industry which would guide the strategic directions. The vision is a strong, sustainable and growing Defence support industry with capability aligned to the needs of Defence. The mission is to work in partnership to grow the capability of the Northern Territory Defence support industry to support Defence, capturing a greater share of Defence spending related to its Northern Territory operations securing substantial benefits for business, Defence and the Northern Territory economy.

This will be achieved through seven major points of focus:

  • Workforce development
  • Building business capabilities
  • Linking industry to opportunity
  • Profiling and promoting industry capability
  • Developing strategic partnerships
  • Research and development.

The success of the strategy will be measured by performance in the following four key areas:

  • The level of Defence expenditure in the Northern Territory
  • The number of skilled workers in the Defence support industry
  • The number of Northern Territory businesses engaged with Defence and prime contractors
  • The number of Northern Territory businesses with the appropriate accreditations, approval and standards, etc. for Defence work.

For further information about this strategy, please contact the Defence support team on (08) 8999 7520.

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