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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.
By Colin ClarkFilling the gap: Mobile connectivity for Army maneuver forces
Expeditionary forces jumping from island to island in the Indo-Pacific need a mobile way to command and control from vehicles, hotels, and homes.
President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will only hold general discussions about AUKUS today, administration officials told reporters.
By Justin Katz
“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.
By Colin Clark
In a new op-ed, Bill Greenwalt of AEI warns that the Biden administration has not publicly provided workable legislative proposals that would take aim at the ITAR challenges for AUKUS.
By Bill Greenwalt
The LDUUV program, dubbed Snakehead, has had a wild ride for the past year between Navy proposals to ditch and resurfacing congressional funding.
By Justin Katz
Former Prime Minister Keating called the AUKUS plan a “deeply pathetic” move by the Labor Party he once led. He personally criticized Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Defense Minister Richard Marles for their roles, saying they were “seriously unwise ministers.”
By Colin Clark![T2BETA_PROGRAM_REVIEWED1[1]](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/08/T2BETA_PROGRAM_REVIEWED11-350x219.jpg)
Space Development Agency’s global mesh network in space is moving forward, with speed
By focusing on delivering minimum viable products, the Space Development Agency is enabling a larger set of suppliers to rapidly field data transport and missile tracking systems.
“Well, there’s one country in the region that’s undergone the biggest peacetime militarization since the Second World War and that’s the People’s Republic of China,” said Australian Shadow Defense Minister Andrew Hastie. “So they can make comments like they have, but it’s kind of ironic given what they’re doing with their military.”
By Colin Clark
Pat Conroy, Australian minister for defense industry, said former minister Peter Dutton is “either being mischievous or he’s not privy to the latest information.”
By Colin Clark
Key members of the House Armed Services Committee pushed back at the idea that AUKUS could be a “zero sum game” for nuclear submarines.
By Colin Clark
A letter from key US lawmakers has raised concerns about the AUKUS plan down under.
By Colin Clark![‘A simple [ITAR] circuit breaker’ needed for Aussie nuke subs: Rep. Courtney](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/12/joe-courtney-scaled-e1670894825960-225x150.jpg)
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If Australia needs US tech for its AUKUS upgrade, arms transfer legislation could get in the way, unless Congress acts, says key US lawmaker.
By Colin Clark
“Overall,” Charles Edel of CSIS said, “I think this was a fairly robust AUSMIN that underscored just how important the America-Australian alliance has become to both countries — and highlighted how much more work they both need to do.”
By Colin Clark “The key strategic risk remains we might need the SSNs much earlier than the proposed schedule,” Neil James, executive director of the non-partisan watchdog, the Australia Defence Association, said.
By Colin Clark
“The president and Congress must go beyond one-off supplemental measures” to support Naval shipbuilding, writes Mackenzie Eaglen of the American Enterprise Institute.
By Mackenzie Eaglen