Babcock Australasia's Nick Hines said the companies envision an "AUKUS passport" to more easily track skills of the workforce for the subs, allowing the countries to trade workers and fill gaps quickly.
"I read about so many people in my position, who say, I'm going to triple revenue by whatever. I don't get into that game. Perhaps that's because of my defense upbringing. I know how to turn capital into capability. I look at value in a company. Revenue to me is one marker. Value is the most important marker for me," Warren "Macca" McDonald, CEO of Lockheed Martin Australia, told Breaking Defense.
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"Importantly, one of the first decisions of the Albanese Labor government after the Defense Strategic Review was to allocate $4.1 billion for long-range strike and missile manufacturing over the next four years," Pat Conroy, defense industry minister, said.
"We very much view this as a generational partnership, one that we're leaning into, and one that we believe will help generate capability and capacity in Australia," Eric Chewning, HII's executive vice president for strategy and development, told a group of reporters.
The proposed legislation would begin the process of knocking down key legal hurdles impending the AUKUS security pact.
It was not clear when President Joe Biden and his counterparts announced AUKUS' details whether those subs would be replaced by new Virginia-class boats or SSN(X).
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One analyst called the new agreement the biggest engineering project in 75 years for Australia, but there are big hurdles that need to be cleared.
The plans include selling at least three Americans attack subs in the early 2030s and the UK, Australians producing a brand new sub, filled with American tech, in the 2040s.