The deal is a milestone in Austal’s ongoing partnership with General Dynamics to offload some of the pressure on the submarine industrial base.
By Justin KatzAutonomy changes everything about combat engineering
Sending robotic vehicles into the breach saves lives by removing humans from one of the most dangerous places on the battlefield.
“Now it [the Columbia-class submarine] is delayed by at least a year, leaving no more margin for failure for the rest of the decades-long procurement and delivery schedule,” said Rep. Ken Calvert, chair of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee.
By Valerie Insinna
“The question is, how do you manage what you might call the transition from the legacy systems to modern systems?” John Plumb, assistant secretary of Defense for Space Policy, told reporters.
By Valerie Insinna
“The reality is the Americans are not going to make their submarine deficit worse than it is already by giving or selling submarines to Australia and the AUKUS legislation actually sets that out quite specifically,” former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said.
By Colin Clark
Independent government auditors found the issues are driving up price, but not yet to the ceiling for the contracts.
By Justin Katz Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro recently said the service is slightly behind its “accelerated” schedule goals for the shipbuilding program.
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
MILSATCOM for the most critical no-fail missions
With multiple nuclear-capable threats and space itself being a contested domain, assured and protected MILSATCOM are more critical than ever before.
The keel laying is an important, albeit largely ceremonial, event in the submarine’s path forward to its first patrol in 2030.
By Justin Katz
Gilday’s blunt remarks were in response to lawmaker questions about the submarine Boise’s years-long wait to dive again.
By Justin Katz
