ADF expands space workforce with new specialist training centre

The Australian defence force is recruiting for two roles in its space command, advertising an operations officer to plan and support missions and an operations specialist with knowledge of equipment. Successful applicants would undertake specialist training at the defence space and cyber school at HMAS Harman in Canberra, in the new purpose-built Florence McKenzie Building, named after Australia’s first female electrical engineer and a pioneer of modern signalling technologies.

“One small step into space operations means a giant leap in capability for our ADF,” Matt Keogh, the minister for veterans affairs and defence personnel, said. “These exciting new roles will grow the ADF’s capabilities in space operations, a critical domain as we respond to the most challenging strategic environment since the second world war.” The ADF’s website said the force relied on space systems and information, including “meteorology, communications, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, targeting, positioning, navigation and timing”.

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