The Defense Department is asking Congress to include legislative language supporting AUKUS in its upcoming defense authorization bill, including provisions that would enable the transfer of Virginia-class submarines to Australia and allow the United States to expand its submarine industrial base using Australian funding. Submitted May 2 by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the legislative proposal highlights a need to bolster U.S. public and private submarine industrial base capacity in order to deliver on the AUKUS agreement ,...
