PRESS RELEASE: WorkSec Anchors National Defence-Security Practice at Lot Fourteen Innovation Precinct
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DATE: Thursday, 4th June 2026
HEADLINE: WorkSec Anchors National Defence-Security Practice at Lot Fourteen Innovation Precinct
ADELAIDE, South Australia, 4 June 2026 – WorkSec, an Australian provider of personnel security governance and Defence Industry Security Program (DISP) compliance services, today confirmed Lot Fourteen in Adelaide as the operational home of its national defence-security practice.
The company has been operating from the precinct since 2025 and now formalises Lot Fourteen as a key strategic anchor of its work across Australia’s defence-industry supply chain and a key part of the growing national footprint for its distributed workforce.
The decision aligns WorkSec’s operating base with the centre of Australia’s most concentrated defence-industry ecosystem at a time of historic investment in sovereign capability.
With the Australian Government committing more than AUD$425 billion dollars to defence and national resilience over the next decade and South Australia hosting seven of the world’s ten largest defence prime contractors, Lot Fourteen has become the practical home of the SME supply chain supporting the Commonwealth’s most significant programmes.
A Strategic Alignment with the Defence State
South Australia’s defence economy has expanded substantially in recent years, per Defence SA’s reporting, driven by the AUKUS submarine programme, the Hunter-class frigate build, and a deepening commitment to sovereign space and cyber capabilities.
WorkSec’s anchor at Lot Fourteen is an explicit alignment with this growth: a decision to be physically embedded inside the community of primes, SMEs, research institutions, and Commonwealth agencies that need cleared personnel and DISP-ready governance.
“The work we do has always been about closing the distance between a cleared workforce and the contracts that depend on it,” said Stuart Rainsford, Managing Director and Chief Security Officer of WorkSec.
“Anchoring at Lot Fourteen takes that further. The collaborative friction inside this precinct, the daily contact with primes, with researchers, with the SMEs we sponsor, is exactly what allows us to protect the supply chain at the speed the sector now requires.”
The Intersection of Cyber, Defence, and Sovereign R&D
Lot Fourteen hosts more than 160 organisations, including the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML), the Defence and Space Landing Pad, and the Australian Defence Technologies Academy.
Lot Fourteen is located 30 minutes away from the Osborne Naval Shipyard, the home of the AUKUS Nuclear-Powered Submarine Program and the Hunter Class Frigate Program.
This means that WorkSec’s operations base is now located near some of the largest industrial undertakings in Australian history to ensure its personnel can complete critical security work in close proximity.
Security briefings and education, security clearance application support, and broader compliance and governance engagement all benefit from face-to-face engagement.
By operating within the Lot Fourteen defence precinct, WorkSec is located close to Tier-1 primes such as BAE Systems (whose Australian operations centre is at the Osborne Naval Shipyard) and the SME contractors that form their supply chains.
WorkSec gains the same in-person access to clients that the largest consultancies have long enjoyed, while retaining the boutique service model defence-industry SMEs need.
The precinct’s tenants include the Defence Innovation Partnership, with AIDN-SA active across the wider Adelaide defence ecosystem, opening direct routes for joint readiness assessments and cleared-talent referrals.
The Lot Fourteen anchor is part of a wider WorkSec commitment to embedded visibility across the Australian defence ecosystem.
In 2026, WorkSec is the 12-month lanyard sponsor across all Australian Defence Magazine and Australian Industry Defence Network (AIDN) events nationally, including the Indian Ocean Defence Summit in Perth, the Alliance SA programme in Adelaide, and the ADM event series across Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane.
The programme reflects the company’s view that defence-industry trust is built in person, at events where SMEs, primes, and Commonwealth agencies meet, rather than from a distance.
The April 2026 strategic partnership announcement between WorkSec and AIDN, supporting AIDN’s continued work with Australian SMEs in the defence supply chain, is the formal anchor of that visibility programme.
For clients, the Lot Fourteen anchor translates into faster on-site support and a deeper working understanding of South Australia’s regulatory and contracting environment.
For partners, including the Defence Innovation Partnership, AIML, and AIDN-SA, the WorkSec presence provides direct access to security clearance sponsorship, personnel security governance and cleared-talent advisory capability.
For the broader Australian Defence Force ecosystem, the message is straightforward: WorkSec is committing operationally to the sovereign capability mission, not advising it from a distance.
Adelaide is WorkSec’s primary national operations base and complements its growing Australiawide presence with workers located across the country alongside key defence and security nodes.
About WorkSec
WorkSec is a DISP-accredited Australian provider of personnel security governance services for the defence industry. The company sponsors Baseline, NV1, and NV2 security clearances under the AGSVA framework, supports SMEs in meeting DISP personnel compliance obligations under the Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF) and the Defence Security Principles Framework (DSPF), and provides cleared talent referral services to Tier-1 primes and Commonwealth agencies. Learn more at worksec.au and through our DISP compliance, security clearance sponsorship, and Defence SMEs services.
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