The Australian arm of Pacific Aerospace Consulting has joined Adelaide-based defence know-how specialist Aurizn.
With a sister organisation based mostly within the US, the Australian department of Pacific Aerospace Consulting (PAC) was established in Canberra in 2005 with a deal with delivering operational options geared in direction of the aerospace sector.
Aurizn mentioned the strategic acquisition would improve its capabilities in cybersecurity, methods integration, and mission planning amongst different areas, positioning it as a Tier 2 defence know-how enterprise with over 300 professionals.
“Aurizn has at all times had a powerful imaginative and prescient for progress within the defence sector, filling the house between the primes and the smaller however typically extremely succesful finish of the market,” mentioned Brett Sangster, who lately took over as Aurizn CEO. “Given the robust demand for sovereign functionality, we’re excited at how our progress will ship each service and scale to reply that want.”
Backed by Pemba Capital Companions, Aurizn was shaped in 2022 by way of the merger of South Australian software program engineering corporations Consilium and elmTEK, each of which had served the defence sector for greater than a decade. Earlier this 12 months, Aurizn added industrial specialist McR Defence from legislation agency McCullough Robertson, bringing in Sangster to take over as chief.
A former managing director at Downer, Sangster mentioned Aurizn would proceed to hunt out acquisition alternatives to help the agency’s progress agenda, together with with a view to PAC’s American enterprise. In the meantime, Pacific Aerospace Consulting co-founder and US CEO Eric Rambow will be part of Aurizn as an govt director, alongside former elmTek and QinetiQ leaders Ganen Ganeswaran and Bjorn Wharff.
“Aurizn are market leaders for superior STEM, simulation and know-how,” Rambow mentioned of his choice to hitch the agency, noting PAC’s observe file in helping the switch of capabilities between the US and Australia. “Collectively, the businesses present a big uplift in sovereign functionality, whereas leveraging the coalition data wanted within the present menace setting.”
Pacific Aerospace Consulting lately claimed its second consecutive Defence Help Enterprise of the Yr title on the Australian Aviation Awards, and was famous by Aurizn for its robust fame in operations-focused engineering and methods integration together with its technical experience in specialist areas resembling communications, tactical knowledge hyperlink networks, and mission enablement.
