CEA Technologies: Growing in the Global Market

CEA Technologies has built a reputation as a world-class designer and developer of leading-edge radar and communications solutions.

Canberra based company, CEA Technologies Pty Limited, provides innovative solutions to the evolving technical requirements in the civil and military sectors. The company's commitment to customer service and its continuing focus on research and development, ensure high quality solutions and support for both current and new customers. A high percentage of CEA's resources are committed to research and development, ensuring its products remain cutting edge and competitive in world markets.

The company has developed an active phased array radar, called CEAFAR, which represents the next generation of multi function surveillance radars. It is suitable for a wide range of applications including, air to surface surveillance, littoral surveillance radar, fire control, precision approach, air traffic control and weather radar applications.

CEA is currently negotiating the contract to install the CEAFAR Active Phased Array Radar and CEAMOUNT Active Phased Array Target Illuminator on the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) eight ANZAC Class frigates as part of the SEA 1448 Anti-Ship Missile Defence (ASMD) program. This project follows on from the successful completion of land based tests and at sea trials aboard HMAS ARRUNTA, which clearly demonstrated the capabilities of the system and its potential for future applications.

Additionally, the company has a contract with the Commonwealth Government for the development of a high powered version of CEAFAR for the Australian and United States governments. This new family of scalable radar, called AUSPAR, provides capabilities well beyond those currently available in modern radar systems, and will provide Australian technology capable of meeting the government's planned theatre ballistic missile defence requirements.

CEA has successfully exported a range of advanced radar and communications systems to countries throughout the world, with systems operating across the Asia-Pacific, the United States and the Middle East. The US Navy currently uses CEA conventional radar surveillance systems for border protection and the company also supplies a range of surveillance systems for other overseas defence and government organisations. A similar system is also installed and used to provide vessel traffic management in the ports of Sydney and Newcastle here in Australia.

CEA's communications expertise has been used in the 14 ARMIDALE Class Patrol Boats built for the Royal Australian Navy by the Defence Maritime Services/Austal Ships team, which have been equipped with CEA’s integrated communications and direction finding systems. The same system has also been installed in the RAN's six HUON class mine hunters.

The company's founders have been recognised for excellence in their individual fields with Ian Croser winning the 1998 Clunies Ross Foundation National Science & Technology Award for Excellence in the Application and Commercialisation of Australian Technology, and CEA's former President David Gaul named the Ernst and Young Australian Entrepreneur of the Year in 2003 in the field of technology, communication, e-commerce and life sciences. In 2005 CEA was awarded the ACT Chief Minister's Export Award for Information and Communications technology, and in 2006 was inducted to the ACT Exporters' Hall of Fame.

CEA's workforce of over 230 people is representative of its accomplishments over the past 24 years. With offices in Melbourne, Adelaide and San Diego the company thrives in both domestic and international markets. Its success creates flow on work benefits for other ACT and regional companies and further emphasises the Territory as a designer and supplier of competitive leading edge technologies to defence, government and industry on the national and international stages.

To find out more

Contact: CEA Technologies Pty Limited
Phone: 61 2 6213 0001
Email: cea@cea.com.au
Web: www.cea.com.au