WA companies take centre stage at Indo-Pacific defence expo

• Cook
  Government proudly backing Team WA on the 14th Indo Pacific International
  Maritime Exposition
• 42 defence companies from WA will exhibit on
  the Defence West stand
• Premier defence occasion to unlock alternative, assist
  create jobs and diversify WA’s economic system

Western Australia’s
main defence and maritime innovators will showcase on the 14th Indo Pacific
Sea Power Conference and International Maritime Exposition (INDOPAC 2025) in
Sydney over the following two days.

Team WA – a 42-strong
delegation of native small and medium companies – will exhibit cutting-edge
merchandise, companies and experience to world defence leaders, maritime businesses,
and trade decision-makers from throughout the Indo-Pacific.

This 12 months’s theme,
Strength at Sea = Security and Prosperity at Home, drives house the message that
Australia’s naval energy is central to our nationwide safety and lifestyle.

Western Australia
continues to strengthen its popularity because the nation’s house of defence
manufacturing and AUKUS, supported by main Commonwealth investments together with
the longer term base for Australia’s conventionally armed, nuclear-powered
submarines below AUKUS, plans for a Defence Precinct at Henderson, and the
upcoming construct of Australia’s new general-purpose frigates.

Past Team WA members
– together with Innovaero, Franmarine, Blacktree Technology, Onetide and Greenroom
Robotics – have solid key worldwide partnerships and pilot alternatives
with defence primes and naval forces within the United Kingdom and United States.

The checklist of WA companies
attending INDOPAC 2025 as part of Team WA could be discovered at

Comments attributed to Defence Industries Minister Paul Papalia:

“Defence is on monitor to change into Western Australia’s second-largest
financial driver, and INDOPAC offers our native firms the platform to showcase
their experience.

“The occasion additionally helps shine a highlight on WA because the nation’s house of
AUKUS and a world-class shipbuilder.

“Through INDOPAC, the Cook Government helps WA defence companies
break into world markets, entice funding, and develop superior
manufacturing abilities that may safe our State’s financial future.”