Line of Defence Magazine - Spring 2021

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DEFENCE Serco Defence brings Design, Build, Operate and Maintain expertise to region According to Serco Defence’s Clint Thomas and Clinton Williams, international naval shipbuilding experience provides the defence prime with an understanding of future naval support operations, scale and capability that few can match.

RADM (Ret’d) Clint Thomas AM CSC joined Serco Asia Pacific as Managing Director, Defence in July 2017 following a 40-year career in Defence and the Royal Australian Navy, most recently as Commander of Joint Logistics.

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Clinton Williams joined Serco Asia Pacific as Defence Relationship Manager (NZ) in June 2020 following a 19-year career in the Royal New Zealand Navy. His most recent RNZN posting was as Commander Officer Training School.

For more than 50 years, Serco Defence has been trusted by governments around the world to deliver complex maritime project management, including design experience in all ship types, spanning new vessel design and refit modifications, Icebreaker and Southern Ocean support vessel design and operation, mariner training and simulations support services, and waterfront maintenance of over 900 ships worldwide. Serco has been involved in every major US Navy ship programme over the past 40 years and has provided assured support to the Royal Australian Navy for the past 20 years. Globally, one third of Serco’s revenue results from serving our defence customers, and the majority of our military support tasks are naval. Serco’s ships and designs, our people and experience play key roles in supporting the Royal Navy (RN), the United States Navy (USN), the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN). This makes Serco one of the larger maritime service companies in the world, able to call upon a wide range of maritime expertise across the ‘Five Eyes’ nations. It’s perhaps Serco’s best-kept secret, but Serco is a well-established ship builder. To its customers, “shipbuilding” means successfully bringing together a team of programme

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One Eye Open: Mental health blind spot in counterterror efforts

8min
pages 44-48

Private Sector Crowded Places Security Advisory Group gets the nod

2min
page 43

IFSEC Global Influencers in Security and Fire 2021 Announced

10min
pages 40-42

AUKUS announcement signals rise of the Indo Pacific

7min
pages 38-39

Policy challenges highlighted in National Security Journal Indo-Pacific special issue

2min
page 37

Were recent events in Afghanistan really an ‘intelligence failure’?

8min
pages 34-36

Australia identifies Space as cyber warfare high-ground

2min
pages 32-33

Littoral Manoeuvre Craft contract goes to Tasmanian company

2min
page 29

Report Card: Broader Outcomes two years on

2min
page 30

Q&A: Ian Harman, CEO, New Zealand Defence Industry Association

8min
pages 26-28

NZDF exercises with international counterparts in South East Asia

2min
page 31

New Zealand could take a global lead in controlling the development of ‘killer robots’ — so why isn’t it?

4min
pages 20-21

Serco Defence brings Design, Build, Operate and Maintain expertise to region

7min
pages 10-13

Common Space Start-up Communications Errors

7min
pages 24-25

The Interview: Andrew Bridgman, Secretary of Defence

12min
pages 6-9

Building New Zealand’s Future Navy

7min
pages 14-15

Remote Working: Protecting sensitive data

3min
pages 18-19

Afghanistan – Lessons to be learnt

4min
pages 22-23

MQ-9B Remotely Piloted Aircraft Support For Resource Protection

4min
pages 16-17
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