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Submarine Construction Yard.
Australian Submarine Agency

Concept Design Partners announced for South Australia’s new Submarine Construction Yard

The Australian Government continues to progress Australia’s conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarines, announcing the concept design partners for South A
  • Capability
  • South Australia
Royal Australian Navy Sailors graduate Submarine Officer Basic Course
Australian Submarine Agency

Royal Australian Navy Sailors graduate Submarine Officer Basic Course: next step, assignment to U.S. Virginia class submarines

In a first for the U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy, three Royal Australian Navy officers graduated from the U.S.
  • Education & training
  • Workforce development
Image of submarine docked in a bay
Australian Submarine Agency

Nuclear Graduate Program - Applications are Now Open

Australia’s conventionally-armed nuclear-powered submarine program will require the collective effort of thousands of highly skilled Australians.
  • Education & training
  • Workforce development
USS Annapolis (SSN 760), a Los Angeles class fast-attack submarine arrives at HMAS Stirling
Australian Submarine Agency

HMAS Stirling welcomes USS Annapolis

This week Australia has been excited to host USS Annapolis, a Los Angeles class submarine and her crew to HMAS Stirling in Perth, Western Australia.This visit m
  • Capability
  • Western Australia
Royal Australian Navy officers and sailors training in Guam with AUKUS partners, the U.S. Navy
Australian Submarine Agency

Royal Australian Navy sailors travel to Guam to embed with United States Navy

A group of 37 Royal Australian Navy officers and sailors have departed for Guam to embed on board USS Emory S.
  • Capability
Royal Australian Navy Officers graduate from US Navy's Nuclear Power Training Unit
Australian Submarine Agency

Full steam ahead in nuclear power training

Three Royal Australian Navy officers took another significant step in their submariner careers, and on the Pathway to Australia operating conventionally-armed n
  • Education & training
  • People & profiles
US Virginia class nuclear-powered submarine
Australian Submarine Agency

Passage of priority AUKUS submarine and export control exemption legislation by the United States Congress

The US Congress has passed the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes substantial enabling provisions for Australia’s AUKUS nuclear-powe
  • AUKUS
Australia’s future conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarine – SSN-AUKUS.
Australian Submarine Agency

Australian hull steel for Australian SSN-AUKUS conventionally-armed nuclear-powered submarines

The Australian Submarine Agency has entered into a contract with Australian steel manufacturer, Bisalloy Steels, for the qualification of Australian steel for u
  • Industry & supply chain
Submarine Construction Yard.
Australian Submarine Agency

Public comment of the draft Terms of Reference for the Strategic Assessment of the Osborne Submarine Construction Yard is now open

Australia will begin building its first SSN-AUKUS in Osborne, South Australia by the end of this decade.
  • Community engagement
  • South Australia
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, the Hon Richard Marles MP, United States Secretary of Defense, the Hon Lloyd J. Austin III, and United Kingdom Secretary of State for Defence, the Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP.
Australian Submarine Agency

AUKUS Defense Ministers Meeting

United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd J.
  • AUKUS
Australia’s future conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarine – SSN-AUKUS.
Australian Submarine Agency

Additional university places to grow Australia's AUKUS workforce

Thousands more students will train at 16 Australian universities through the allocation of an additional 4,001 Commonwealth supported places in STEM courses to
  • Education & training
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, The Hon Richard Marles MP, and Premier of South Australia, Peter Malinauskas MP, formalised a land exchange agreement at Osborne, South Australia, on 10 November 2023 to secure a site for the construction of Australia’s next-generation conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarines at Osborne Naval Shipyard.
Australian Submarine Agency

Land agreement between Defence and South Australia formalised to build Australia’s nuclear-powered submarines

Australia is a step closer to building conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarines after the Australian and South Australian governments today signed a lan
  • Capability
  • South Australia
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