Two companies selected to build Australia’s first nuclear-powered submarines

The Australian government has selected UK defence firm BAE Systems and South Australia-based shipbuilder ASC for the construction of Australia’s new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines as part of the AUKUS trilateral security pact between the United States, the UK, and Australia. Under the AUKUS...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/maritime-security-world/naval/submersibles-naval/two-companies-selected-to-build-australias-first-nuclear-powered-submarines/

BAE and ASC Pty Ltd selected to build SSN-AUKUS submarines

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In what is scarcely a surprising move, the Australian Government has selected BAE Systems and ASC Pty Ltd to build Australia’s new fleet of SSN-AUKUS nuclear powered attack submarines. In the latest significant development in the AUKUS trilateral security pact between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, the news was announced yesterday by Australian Deputy Prime Minister, Richard Marles, and U.K. Defence Secretary, Grant Shapps,

Our relationship with is one that has stood...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/bae-and-asc-pty-ltd-selected-to-build-ssn-aukus-submarines/

New CBO report takes a hard look at Navy shipbuilding plans

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its latest analysis of U.S. Navy shipbuilding plan costs. Not for the first time, the CBO report finds costs would be higher than the Navy estimates and that the average annual appropriation required would be substantially higher than the average over the past five years.

As we’ve noted oftentimes, the Navy is the U.S. shipbuilding industry’s largest customer, so we can expect the CBO report to provide industry leaders with some less than light...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/new-cbo-report-takes-a-hard-look-at-navy-shipbuilding-plans/

OPINION | Australia and India should cooperate in undersea search and rescue

India and Australia have an interest in addressing subsurface challenges in their shared maritime domain. As they and other countries in the region grow their submarine fleets, there’s a critical need to develop underwater search and rescue capabilities and considerable scope to work together. In...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/small-craft-world/search-and-rescue/opinion-australia-and-india-should-cooperate-in-undersea-search-and-rescue/

Republicans Call for White House Shipbuilding Boost to Support AUKUS Attack Sub Sale

Virginia-class submarine USS Oregon (SSN-793) transits the Thames River during routine operations in Groton, Conn., on Oct. 6. US Navy Photo

A group of Republican lawmakers is calling on the Biden administration to boost submarine industrial base support with a claim the U.S. submarine force could be at risk if Washington goes through with the sale of Virginia-class nuclear attack boats to the Royal Australian Navy, according to the letter obtained by USNI News.

On Wednesday, the group of 22...

https://news.usni.org/2023/07/27/republicans-call-for-white-house-shipbuilding-boost-to-support-aukus-attack-sub-sale

VIDEO: USS Canberra Commissions in Rare Overseas Ceremony

U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard and the Royal Australian Navy ceremonial guard line up for a photo op shortly before the commissioning ceremony for the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Canberra (LCS-30) in Sydney, Australia July 22, 2023. DoD Photo

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – Leaders of the U.S. Navy joined their Australian counterparts on a windy winter day at the ancestral home of the Royal Australian Navy to welcome USS Canberra (LCS-30) to the American fleet.

Moored the RAN naval base HMAS...

https://news.usni.org/2023/07/22/video-uss-canberra-commissions-in-rare-overseas-ceremony

Senate Bill Sets Up AUKUS Sub Buy as U.S. Industrial Capacity Questions Linger

USS Vermont (SSN-792) makes her way up the Thames River and past the City of New London as she returns home after conducting routine operations to Submarine Base New London on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. US Navy Photo

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The U.S. Senate took a tangible step forward to supply the Royal Australian Navy with its own nuclear attack boats with a new AUKUS bill that sets a framework to transfer Virginia-class attack boats to Canberra by the 2030s, Sen Tim Kaine (D-Va.) told reporters on...

https://news.usni.org/2023/07/14/senate-bill-sets-up-aukus-sub-buy-as-u-s-industrial-capacity-questions-linger

First Australian Sailors Graduate from Nuclear Power School, Set to Serve on U.S. Navy Subs in Hawaii

Royal Australian Navy graduates from Naval Power School (l to r) Lt. Cmdr. Adam Klyne, Lt. Cmdr. James Heydon and Lt. William Hall. US Navy Photos

The first of a new cadre of nuclear-trained Australian sailors graduated on Fridayfrom nuclear power school in Charleston, S.C.

The three Royal Australian Navy officers completed the service’s six-month Naval Nuclear Power Training Command and Nuclear Power School, which teaches the fundamentals of running U.S. naval nuclear reactors on submarines and...

https://news.usni.org/2023/07/07/first-australian-sailors-graduate-from-nuclear-power-school-set-to-serve-on-u-s-navy-subs-in-hawaii

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