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In the Hunter region of New South Wales, BAE Systems Australia supports Regional Development Australia's interactive STEM (iSTEM) subject and ME program in local high schools. 

We provide direct industry examples for the iSTEM subject and work experience for students at our partner schools.

• RDA Hunter’s Skilled Workforce Initiative

Based on a model that currently operates in the United Kingdom, this pilot program combines paid-on-the-job training and assessment with university study. Participants complete a software engineering degree while obtaining essential workforce experience and skills, preparing them for a career of Infinite Possibilities^®.

• Degree apprenticeships

Line Zero is Australia’s first large scale advanced manufacturing accelerator, established in the Tonsley Innovation District, through a partnership between Flinders University and BAE Systems Australia. 

At Line Zero, advanced manufacturing technologies are being trialled by BAE Systems Australia and a range of partner companies and the Innovative Manufacturing CRC to improve shipyard planning and add unique data analytics and problem solving capacity to the Hunter Class Frigate Program.

• Factory of the Future

BAE Systems Australia has also partnered with Flinders University on a Diploma of Digital Technologies to upskill its workers, supply chain and STEM teachers in Industry 4.0 and other advanced manufacturing skills required to support a digital shipyard.

More recently, we introduced the Mechanical Engineering Degree Apprenticeship. Students kickstart their career in mechanical engineering while earning a salary as they study. 

• Degree apprenticeships

We're building our workforce of systems engineers through a degree apprenticeship partnership with RMIT University.

Those enrolled in the RMIT program can complete two mechanical engineering qualifications over five years while being employed and earning a full-time salary. Graduating apprentices will step into our workforce with five years’ experience applying theory into practice.

• Degree apprenticeships

BAE Systems Australia is working with Defence Science and Technology Group and the University of Adelaide to progress research and teaching activities related to ionospheric physics and high frequency technologies.

JOIN is creating an ecosystem to develop and sustain capability of the next generation technical specialists who will deliver high frequency radar technologies. This is achieved through initiatives such as the establishment of the JOIN Innovation Laboratory at the University of Adelaide.,

As a founding member of SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), BAE Systems Australia participates in a number of research projects for technologies that will enhance and create new satellite system capabilities.

Each project is in collaboration with researchers at Australian universities, including the University of New South Wales, La Trobe University, University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia.

• SmartSat CRC

BAE Systems Australia is a founding member of Trusted Autonomous Systems Defence Cooperative Research Centre (TAS-DCRC), and is the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) lead for land autonomy. 

The Trusted Autonomous Ground Vehicles for Electronic Warfare project aims to convert the Australian Army’s M113AS4 Armoured Personnel Carriers into Optionally Crewed Combat Vehicles (OCCVs). 

The project is a collaboration between BAE Systems Australia, the University of Melbourne and the University of Adelaide. It leverages partner university expertise in several autonomy-related fields, including semantic understanding at the University of Adelaide and multi-objective optimisation at the University of Melbourne.

• TAS-DCRC

BAE Systems Australia has established research partnerships with the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland, supporting PhD student research projects that contribute to the advancement of our sovereign capability in hypersonics.