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Defence secretary Greg Moriarty has confirmed his department is looking at alternatives to French-designed submarines in case the troubled contract is sunk.
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The federal opposition has asked the auditor-general to investigate cost blowouts with the program to build Australia’s new fleet of submarines.
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The French company building Australia’s 12 Future Submarines in Adelaide has confirmed local companies will get just two thirds of the work pledged when it bid for the $80 billion contract five years ago.
Mismanagement and delay in the hugely expensive replacement program for the Collins-class submarines is a nightmare for Australian defence and taxpayers, argues Rex Patrick.
South Australia’s three major universities will collaborate with France’s central scientific agency and the company chosen to design Australia’s $52 billion Future Submarines to establish a joint defence research laboratory in Adelaide, InDaily can reveal.
South Australian-based shipbuilder ASC and the French winners of the future submarines contract, Naval Group, today signed an agreement to work together on key aspects of Australia’s submarine programs.
