The scope of Babcock Australasia’s function in delivering Counter Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive (C-CBRNE) asset management and solutions to Defence has expanded.
Since securing a Prime Vendor agreement with Defence in 2019, Babcock has grown the scope and throughput of the program by more than 400 per cent in partnership with Defence and industry. This growth has been to address capability gaps.
“We have optimised resourcing on this program and recruited a highly effective team who work from a foundation of collaboration,” said Babcock Australasia's Managing Director Mission and Support Systems Richard Udall.
“Fifty per cent of our team have had past Defence experience so they understand the nuance and complexities around bespoke capability, and importantly the functional use of these C-CBRNE products, so they have been able to lean in to understand Defence’s needs.”
The effectiveness of the C-CBRNE team - and its overall contract model - has seen its skills and services now being utilised by other Defence programs to fill capability gaps, including a watercraft acquisition outside of the program’s scope, which Babcock sourced and procured within a tight timeframe.
A new purpose-built warehouse facility in Adelaide, scheduled to be complete by the end of the year, will further increase Babcock’s capacity to support such requests was well as provide increased speed of availability of current equipment.
“We see great potential for this contract model to be rolled out across all Defence programs as a template for success," Richard Udall said.