
Call for cost blowouts probe into Adelaide submarine build
The federal opposition has asked the auditor-general to investigate cost blowouts with the program to build Australia’s new fleet of submarines.
The federal opposition has asked the auditor-general to investigate cost blowouts with the program to build Australia’s new fleet of submarines.
The French defence firm tasked with building a new fleet of submarines in Adelaide has invited Australian manufacturers to bid to produce specialised parts in a package it says will generate hundreds of jobs and cost up to $900m.
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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.
The French designer building Australia’s new fleet of submarines will take lessons from a missing Argentinian vessel.