Defence Minister Richard Marles has warned that Australia’s plan to acquire a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines faces a significant challenge to find the workforce needed to bring the ships to service.
: Defence Minister Richard Marles has warned that Australia’s plan to acquire a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines faces a significant challenge to find the workforce needed to bring the ships to service, and that much more needed to be done to ensure the success of the AUKUS pact.
“We are building a three-way ecosystem, and that’s how people need to understand it,” Marles said as he visited Washington on Friday to work through some of the final details of the pact with US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.Despite recent jitters about America’s ability to provide nuclear-powered submarines to Australia -
Another major hurdle, he acknowledged today, was America’s maze of regulations and export control laws, such as the International Traffic in Arms Regulations which could delay for years the transfer of crucial technologies.Australian officials have for years been pushing their US counterparts to reform their treatment under arms regulations, and the issue was front and centre of the December Australian-US Ministerial consultations between Marles and Austin.
Meanwhile, Republican Senator James Risch, a ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee, urged the Biden Administration to also do more, saying it had “rolled out the AUKUS partnership to great fanfare, but has been slow to conduct the detailed work to ensure effective interagency implementation.”
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