Shipbuilding is strategically important – but statistically invisible. Across major shipbuilding economies, governments are making decisions on industrial support, skills and the energy transition with partial, inconsistent or poorly aligned data on the sector. This policy brief presents analysis across 11 countries and the European Union highlighting four key consequences of these data limitations.

Construction of the Hunter class frigates is part of the Australian Government’s continuous naval shipbuilding program intended to develop sovereign Australian shipbuilding and sustainment. The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Defence’s procurement of Hunter class frigates and the achievement of value for money to date.

This is the public version of the Strategic Fleet Taskforce report. It is necessarily different from the 30 June 2023 version of the Taskforce’s report provided to the Federal Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Catherine King. It is less detailed, as some of the judgements and advice in the Minister's report...

In 2018, the government planned to build nine new frigates in three batches at Osborne, South Australia. This audit provides independent assurance to Parliament on Defence’s procurement, decision-making and advising, contracting, and delivery to date.

The purpose of this research is to investigate how takt production benefits from proper logistics solutions. The findings reveal that utilizing specific assembly and logistics units together with JIT delivery of material kits and integrated design and production information reduces material waste and procurement costs as well as increases the production rate.