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Australian Official Updates AUKUS Sub Workforce Progress

Australian Official Updates AUKUS Sub Workforce Progress
The Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Vermont (SSN-792) is at HMAS Stirling in Western Australia in late October 2025 for a scheduled Submarine Maintenance Period (SMP), marking the first time Pearl Harbour Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility will lead and execute SSN maintenance in Australia. (Photo: Royal Australia Navy, ABIS Jaxsen Shinners)

An Australian government official this week gave updated numbers on personnel and confirmed timelines for next steps in AUKUS workforce and maintenance projects. “We are on track to being ready to commence Submarine Rotational Force-West [SRF-W] in Western Australia in 2027. We are on track to become sovereign ready and receive our first sovereign SSNs, the Virginia-class submarine, in the early 2030s. We are on track to commence building our SSN-AUKUS submarines at Osborne Shipyard in South Australia by the…

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