For example: Tenix Defence is completing Project Protector at Williamstown for the New Zealand Government, Thales Australia has sold military vehicles to the US, Canada, the UAE and the Netherlands, Nulka and ESSM technologies have been successfully exported, and GKN is providing high level design support to international primes on global projects such as Joint Strike Fighter.
[2] Approximately 25 percent of defence industry activity in Australia occurs in Victoria, despite the fact that Victoria has few major military bases and consequently fewer opportunities to supply maintenance and overhaul services to Defence assets.
Around 40 percent of the total turnover for the core Victorian defence companies in 2005–06 was attributed to international markets.
[9] To guide policy development and lead on strategic projects the Government also established the Defence Council Victoria on 24 July 2007.
[10] The Council provides the Government with high level advice on current defence industry issues.