Australian Submarine Agency
Australian Submarine Agency
Defence portfolio
Verified figures
- Contracts (all years): 516
- Contract value (all years): 377,749,086 AUD
- Contract value (2026): 92,048,931 AUD
- APS headcount: 802
- Budget 2025-26: 394,086 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 821,389 AUD
- Directory roles: no publishable rows matched — this means the figure is unknown, not nil
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Coverage — named in the headline (2)
- 2025-11-13 — Movers & Shakers: Director-general departs Australian Submarine Agency
- 2024-12-08 — Australian Submarine Agency under review: Everything we know so far
Passing mentions (10 shown)
Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.
- 2026-08-21 — KPMG blames auditing rule change for reassessment of whistleblower contract
- 2026-08-06 — Movers & Shakers: Bumper Band 1 week
- 2026-07-02 — Movers & Shakers: Queensland and WA’s big week
- 2026-06-01 — ASIC probes KPMG document-sharing saga
- 2026-05-28 — Movers & Shakers: CEO named to government radar company
- 2026-05-14 — Movers & Shakers: New APS and DVSC commissioners
- 2026-05-13 — ATO the big APS headcount winner in Albo’s property tax crackdown
- 2026-05-13 — Budget 2026: Federal agency ups and downs
- 2026-05-12 — Headlines for the public service from the 2026-27 budget
- 2026-05-12 — Budget 2026: APS headcount flatlines
Payments to organisations — as reported by the agency
| Category | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Non-consultancy contracts | 10 | $33,577 |
| Consultancy | 8 | $23,979 |
Largest recipients across all reported years
| Organisation | ABN | Reported total | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCKINSEY PACIFIC RIM INC | 66055131443 | $12,701 | 2024-25 |
| YTS YELLOW TAIL SOLUTIONS (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 57652804521 | $7,741 | 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| ACCENTURE AUSTRALIA PTY LTD (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 49096776895 | $6,820 | 2023-24, 2024-25 |
| BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP | 70007347131 | $6,758 | 2024-25 |
| BAE SYSTEMS MARINE LIMITED | — | $5,846 | 2024-25 |
| ASC PTY LTD | 64008605034 | $5,004 | 2024-25 |
| XKG PTY LTD | 29600053549 | $3,273 | 2024-25 |
| GHD Pty Ltd | 39008488373 | $2,317 | 2023-24 |
| SYNERGY GROUP AUSTRALIA PTY LTD | 65119369827 | $1,814 | 2024-25 |
| ARTEMIS PARTNERS | 53632506702 | $1,426 | 2024-25 |
| Ashurst Australia | 75304286095 | $1,391 | 2023-24 |
| Power Initiatives | 78066551773 | $1,185 | 2023-24 |
From the expenditure disclosures in each annual report — a separate source from the AusTender contract figures above, and not directly comparable with them.
Workforce profile — as at 2025-12-31
| Measure | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| % CALD | 16.5% | at this date |
| % Female | 45.6% | at this date |
| % Indigenous | 1.1% | at this date |
| % at the APS classification level | 45.0% | at this date |
| % non-ongoing | 1.9% | at this date |
| % part-time (ongoing employees) | 3.0% | at this date |
| % who have worked in only one agency (ongoing employees) | 39.0% | at this date |
| % with a bachelors degree or higher | 75.1% | at this date |
| % with a disability | 2.0% | at this date |
| Exit rate - from agency (ongoing employees) | 18.0% | Year ending December 2025 |
| Headcount | 802 | at this date |
| Mean Age (years) | 39.3 years | at this date |
| Median LOS in APS (years) | 5.3 years | at this date |
| Separation rate - from APS (ongoing employees) | 7.2% | at this date |
APSC APS Employment Data, counting this agency including any bodies beneath it. Headcount, not FTE — the APSED release does not publish FTE.
Year by year
| Measure | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APS headcount | 542 | 748 | 802 | |||
| SES | 15 | 15 | 15 | |||
| Contracts | 2 | 25 | 125 | 163 | 167 | 34 |
| Contract value | $2,209,817 | $26,845,200 | $93,923,688 | $90,748,621 | $125,219,027 | $38,802,733 |
| Budget ($000) | 394,086 | |||||
| KMP disclosed | 8 | 6 | ||||
| Top total pay | $821,389 | $816,902 |
An empty cell means no publishable row for that year — unknown, not nil. Never read a blank as a fall to zero.
Sources — annual reports
Each link opens transparency.gov.au — the published source the figures were read from. The label names the table to look for.
° The portal does not publish a path for this report, so the link opens the agency's reports on transparency.gov.au rather than that year directly. Pick the year from there.
