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Despite the previous Conservative Party government pledging to increase military spending to 3 percent GDP by 2030, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stopped short of making any such commitment and has deferred a new defense spending review until after 2025.
By Tim MartinMilitary innovation and savings: Go commercial
DoD uses FAR Part 12 acquisitions to save hundreds of millions of dollars in “of a type” systems like civil landing systems with applicability to military aircraft.
“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
Australia faces “huge political risk in this, and huge costs. It’s going to be an extremely bumpy ride,” says Malcolm Davis of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
By Colin Clark
“He is commenting on an outcome he doesn’t yet know,” the British ambassador to Australia said of Peter Dutton’s comments praising American, rather than UK, subs.
By Colin Clark
March 13 is the target date to gather President Joe Biden and Prime Ministers Anthony Albanese and Rushi Sunak in person at one of America’s primary naval bases.
By Colin Clark
Australian Defense Minister Marles said “we really do need to be trying to build a seamless industrial base between the United States” and Australia.
By Colin Clark
ROC-X – The solution to organic precision strike capabilities
At AUSA Global Force 2024, IAI presented integrated, AI-driven combat systems – both manned and unmanned – that are opening new opportunities on the battlefield.
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
An AUKUS announcement is “imminent,” Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles said. “We’re in conversation with both the UK and the US around the manner in which that is ultimately announced.”
By Colin Clark
The incoming Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces lays out his vision for how to make AUKUS succeed in this new op-ed.
By Rep. Joe Courtney 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
“We are concerned that what was initially touted as a ‘do no harm’ opportunity to support Australia and the United Kingdom and build long-term competitive advantages for the U.S. and its Pacific allies, may be turning into a zero-sum game for scarce, highly advanced U.S. SSNs,” wrote the SASC heads.
By Justin Katz The US should take the “next Virginia class that’s built, designate that to the Australian AOR, and [say] we’re going to dual-crew it with Australian sailors and US sailors,” Rep. Rob Wittman tells Breaking Defense.
By Colin Clark and Aaron Mehta
With an AUKUS announcement imminent, nonproliferation expert Alan Kuperman says there’s still time to make sure Australian subs use less dangerous low-enriched uranium and make the world safer.
By Alan J. Kuperman