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NR Head to Industry on Nuke Propulsion Transfer to Australia: Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You

Wednesday, November 17th, 2021

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NR Head to Industry on Nuke Propulsion Transfer to Australia: Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You

Adm. Frank Caldwell, Director of Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program

The head of Naval Reactors invited defense industry executives here Wednesday to think about how they’d contribute to a three-way effort to transfer nuclear submarine propulsion to Australia — but he didn’t invite any contributions. “We have 18 months to go and figure out how to deliver a platform, a capability, to Australia,” Adm. James Caldwell told attendees of the Naval Submarine League’s Annual Symposium in Arlington, Va. “I think initially this is going to be largely a government to…

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