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Official Says Allied Cooperation Improving Navy Sustainment Picture

Official Says Allied Cooperation Improving Navy Sustainment Picture
Rear Adm. Naoya Hoshi, Director General of Logistics Department, Maritime Staff Office, Japan Maritime Self Defense Force; Vice Adm. Jeff Jablon, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Installations and Logistics, OPNAV N4; and Commodore Catherine Rhodes, Director General Logistics, Royal Australian Navy, sign a Trilateral Terms of Reference aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) on July 11, 2025. It focuses on commitments to supply chain collaboration and interoperability among the three navies. (Photo: U.S. Navy by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Darian Lord)

A Navy official recently highlighted how the U.S. Navy’s cooperation with allies is significantly improving its regional sustainment network, especially via limited foreign shipyard maintenance, AUKUS Australian submarine maintenance work, expeditionary missile reloading and international refueling operations. “One of the great ideas that we've had for the regional sustainment framework is repairing our surface ships in a foreign shipyard. But we were precluded from doing that by law previously. NDAA 25 actually granted us the ability to do that now,…

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