Undersea Capability

We are in our element under the surface with SPA Australia having delivered a range of analytical products and services to the Royal Australian Navy including highly classified support and advanced modelling. 

SPA is widely recognised as a leading submarine authority in the US, with its subject matter experts bringing hundreds of years of collective operational, shipyard and maintenance experience across all submarine platforms.

With AUKUS, the trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States intended to promote a free and open Indo-Pacific supporting Australia’s acquisition of a sovereign, conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarine capability, the undersea is at the forefront. 

Recently, the Australian government launched its AUKUS Submarine Industry Strategy underpinned by an investment of $262 million to support local defence industry uplift, calling a “strong and resilient industrial base” a crucial part of “Australia’s enduring, potent and credible sovereign submarine capability”.

Locally, we are proficient in supporting delivery of all aspects of undersea warfare and submarine operations, including efforts to enhance the effectiveness of Collins-class submarine operational deployments. 

We provide our clients with:

1. Modelling, testing and evaluation

SPA uses a variety of custom-designed tools for end-to-end modelling to simulate complex interactions between elements of real-world systems. This provides decision makers with objective, data-driven analysis about the full mission impact of risk, force structure, technology and other factors.

2. Specialised engineering support

We have deep expertise in digital engineering and model based systems engineering and are spearheading this function in multiple Defence programs. 

3. Advanced analytics 

We build bespoke dashboards and models for clients to provide real time descriptive, predictive and exploratory analytics capabilities. Leveraging scientific and mathematical methods we can transform qualitative and quantitative information into insights for data-driven decision making. These insights facilitate complex scheduling, mission employment, and coverage “heat maps” as real-time decision aids.  

4. Strategic policy and program support

We can provide decision support at all levels of government and have advanced policy expertise. Our innovative approach to strategic communications is a data- and tools-driven framework that delivers the right messages to the right audiences at the right time.  

We work with Defence across Maritime, Land, Air, Space, Guided Weapons, Strike, Air Base Capability, Operational Logistics, Wargaming and Cost Assurance. Whether optimising the maintenance and deployment of assets or engineering solutions to prevent the unimaginable, we are committed to our clients’ mission success.