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AUKUS Defense Ministers Commit To Pillar 2 Activities

AUKUS Defense Ministers Commit To Pillar 2 Activities
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps, right, and Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles update reporters on the Australia-United Kingdom-United States AUKUS security partnership during a briefing from Mountain View, Calif., Dec. 1, 2023. (Photo: DoD by Chad J. McNeeley)

The defense ministers of the AUKUS partnership countries last week committed to several activities and timelines for cooperation on Pillar 2 of the partnership, including a series of experiments for autonomous maritime systems. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin hosted Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles and British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps for a visit at the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) at Mountain View, Calif. They revealed several next steps of AUKUS Pillar 2 in a joint statement…

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