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Royal Australian Navy Enlisted Sailors pose for a photograph with their US peers at US Submarine School.

First Royal Australian Navy Enlisted Sailors Begin Training at US Submarine School

The US Naval Submarine School (Submarine School) in Groton welcomed its first cadre of nine enlisted sailors and the second cadre of three officers from the Roy
Submarine Construction Yard.

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
Royal Australian Navy Sailors graduate Submarine Officer Basic Course

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.
Image of submarine docked in a bay

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.
USS Annapolis (SSN 760), a Los Angeles class fast-attack submarine arrives at HMAS Stirling

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
Royal Australian Navy officers and sailors training in Guam with AUKUS partners, the U.S. Navy

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.
Royal Australian Navy Officers graduate from US Navy's Nuclear Power Training Unit

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
US Virginia class nuclear-powered submarine

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
Australia’s future conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarine – SSN-AUKUS.

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
Submarine Construction Yard.

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.
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.

AUKUS Defense Ministers Meeting

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

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