• Executive Director Strategy, Northrop Grumman Australia, Chris Deeble, is joined by Minister for Defence Industry, Melissa Price, to officially open Parallax Labs. (Northrop Grumman)
    Executive Director Strategy, Northrop Grumman Australia, Chris Deeble, is joined by Minister for Defence Industry, Melissa Price, to officially open Parallax Labs. (Northrop Grumman)
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Northrop Grumman Australia has opened its new AU$20 million systems integration, advanced mission visualisation and demonstration facility, ‘Parallax Labs’.

The event was marked by the attendance of the Minister for Defence Industry and Minister for Science and Technology, Melissa Price, Deputy Secretary Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group, Tony Fraser, and Australian defence industry partners.

Parallax Labs brings together a distributed systems and software development, integration and test environment with mission visualisation and demonstration capabilities. The fully immersive and interactive operations room-style environment incorporates large-area displays and reconfigurable technologies to enable key stakeholders to fully envision and test technology and solutions approaches.

“We are committed to developing and investing in sovereign Australian capability," Christine Zeitz, general manager Asia Pacific, Northrop Grumman, said. “Parallax Labs represents a critical component of how Northrop Grumman Australia can support projects with complex system architectures and highly-integrated technologies.

"Importantly, it also serves to facilitate the transfer of technology and the development of Australian critical technology skills that will benefit Australia’s defence industry now and into the future.”

Northrop Grumman’s Parallax Labs is designed to showcase the company’s local and international capabilities with industry partners, customers and technology organisations in a way that preserves the integrity of controlled information with classified, export and trade controlled or sensitive priority information. Unlike traditional labs which are confined to a physical space, Parallax Labs is a 'truly distributed environment', which can be scaled through the cloud to incorporate new capabilities and locations in Australia and overseas.

Parallax Labs brings the advantages of model-based systems engineering, advanced simulation and high levels of automation to systems development, integration and test activities. Northrop Grumman says these enablers are crucial to doing Agile DevSecOps at scale with the dependability customers require for critical mission systems.

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