08:45 ACST
10:15 AEDT

Opening Remarks from the Chair

Jason Miezio, Defence Sector Lead, Sitzler

08:50 ACST
10:20 AEDT

KEYNOTE |Address from the Chief Minister

The Hon Michael Gunner MLA, Chief Minister, Northern Territory Government

09:05 ACST
10:35 AEDT

MINISTERIAL ADDRESS |

The Hon Melissa Price MP, Minister for Defence Industry

09:10 ACST
10:40 AEDT

Defence Infrastructure projects in Northern Australia

• The current landscape and projects for the future
• Major project developments
• Construction industry involvement

Colonel Leonard Rouwhorst, CSC, Director North – Capital Facilities & Infrastructure – Estate and Infrastructure Group (E&IG), Department of Defence

09:40 ACST
11:10 AEDT

Implementation of Future Maritime Sustainment Model – an update for the North

CAPT Anthony Savage, Director OPVSPO and Transition Maritime Systems Division, Royal Australian Navy
Todd Tippett, Director – Patrol Boat Systems Program Office, Department of Defence

10:10 ACST
11:40 AEDT

Morning Break

10:40 ACST
12:10 AEDT

Triton in the NT

Chris Deeble, Chief Executive, Northrop Grumman Australia

11:00 ACST
12:30 AEDT

USFPI and Australian-Singapore Military Training Initiative

• Increasing the international military presence in Northern Australia
• How the current geopolitical situation demonstrates the regional significance of Northern Australia

CDRE Jonathan Earley, Director – General – USFPI & ASMTI, Department of Defence
Dr Robert McGregor, Assistant Secretary,  Major Powers – International Policy Division, Department of Defence

11:30 ACST
13:00 AEDT

Current Operations, the impact of COVID-19 and future plans of the Regional Force Surveillance Group

COL John Papalitsas, Commander Regional Force Surveillance Group, Department of Defence

11:55 ACST
13:25 AEDT

Northern Territory Defence Strategy

Dr Alan Dupont AO, Northern Territory Defence & National Security Advocate, Northern Territory Government

12:10 ACST
13:40 AEDT

Lunch break

13:00 ACST
14:30 AEDT

A look at Australian Defence Industry exports and how the current COVID-19 pandemic is having an impact now and in the future

Jason Kite, Director of Military Sales, Australian Defence Export Office

13:20 ACST
14:50 AEDT        

KEYNOTE | Update from E&IG

Steve Grzeskowiak, Deputy Secretary – E&IG, Department of Defence

13:50 ACST
15:20 AEDT

USFPI Training Ranges/P-8A Poseidon infrastructure

 Jason Miezio, Defence Sector Lead, Sitzler

14:10 ACST
15:40 AEDT

Afternoon Break

14:30 ACST
16:00 AEDT

Defence Force skilling in the North

• A look at the work of the Naval Shipbuilding College since it commenced operations in  2018
• The College’s role in building and skilling the workforce
• Future aims and ambitions

Ian Irving, CEO, Naval Shipbuilding College

14:50 ACST
16:20 AEDT                          

Australia and Space – defence requirements coming out of the 2020 Defence Strategic Update

• Key takeaways from the 2020 Strategic Update and Force Structure Plan – increased emphasis on sovereign capability, space domain awareness and assured space access
• What that implies for Australian sovereign space responsive space launch including potential development in the NT
• International Engagement in Defence and Space – the implications for the Northern Territory as a ‘space coast’
• Strategic risk and Space for Australia

Malcolm Davis, Senior Analyst, ASPI

15:10 ACST
16:40 AEDT

Darwin Aviation Skills Centre

Stephen Goodall, Chief Policy Officer, Chamber of Commerce NT
Karen Green, Partner, Deloitte

15.30 ACST
17:00 AEDT

Defence & Disaster Response

• Defence and Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response: The Northern Australian Context
• CDU’s footprint, partnerships and offerings in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response

Miranda Booth, Charles Darwin University
Assoc Prof Akhilesh Surjan, Charles Darwin University

15.50 ACST
17:20 AEDT

End of Conference| Closing Remarks from the Chair

Jason Miezio, Defence Sector Lead, Sitzler