Canberra-based IT security firms ArchTIS and Willyama have been invited to participate in global defence contractor Raytheon Australia’s Capability Plus program.
Capability Plus is Rayheon’s industry engagement program, which aims to help small businesses win defence work in Australia and overseas.
The companies join eight other small-to-medium sized defence services companies from across Australia.
In a Department of Defence announcement, Minister for Defence Industry Melissa Price welcomed the Raytheon initiative.
“Raytheon’s Capability Plus program will support local businesses to improve their competitiveness to win defence work here and overseas,” Price said.
“It will support their long-term sustainability and our goal of building supply chain resilience and self-reliance.”
Canberra-based Kirra Services has made an art out of turning small wins into big successes in 2020.
A Supply Nation-certified Indigenous information technology service provider, Kirra Services founder Brad Nagle is a proud Bundjalung man with cultural connections back to Fingal Head (Phillips family), a small township of Tweed Heads on the far north coast of NSW.
The company has government and private sector clients across the country and for much of 2020, Nagle himself ran the company from Arnhem Land, where he and his wife spent much of the COVID lockdown working with Indigenous communities.
The IT procurement and recruitment specialist got its start in 2017 winning some small deals as part of the Commonwealth Government s Indigenous procurement policy. It took that success and has since grown to be one of the largest Supply Nation-certified businesses in the country.