Av-Comm has officially opened its new office in North Sydney, on 2 November.
“Today we have secured over half a dozen orders for our first all Aussie made Cassowary satellite ground station and now we’re working on the next generation of Cassowary to support Army’s upcoming Land 4140 program” Michael Cratt, CEO of Av-Comm.
"We’re focusing a lot on the Defence sector and have some interesting programs running with Lockheed Martin.”
Under Defence project JP9102, Lockheed Martin Australia - Space is poised to deliver a sovereign military satellite communications system to the ADF, with Av-Comm playing an important part in developing the technological capability.
In tandem with Av-Comm's office opening, Amos Tepi, CEO of Telikom and Michael Cratt officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding, to develop greater network capability across Papua New Guinea (PNG).
"Our heritage in the Pacific goes back to 1995. Over the years, we’ve found that those areas [in the broader Pacific region] need satellite communications to cover the tyranny of distance in telecommunications. We met Telikom just over a year ago, and since then, we’ve signed over 10 million dollars in contracts…providing resiliency for when their fibre optic networks fail," said Cratt.
“I know I speak for the team when I say that the work we do in PNG and other Pacific countries is immensely satisfying for us perhaps more so than any other work we do because we know it makes a real improvement to people lives where it provides access to tele-health or tele-education or laying the foundations for the digital economy in PNG.”
This collaborative agreement sets the stage for a strengthened relationship between the two organisations, bolstering their collective efforts to deliver resilient network capability across PNG.