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SA premier signs deal for state’s suppliers to supply Virginia class submarine program
South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas has recently returned from a visit to the United States where he signed a deal with Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) – the biggest military shipbuilding in the US.
We know that building nuclear submarines is going to take a national enterprise and a national effort, but our ambitions to be able to build these submarines domestically requires a supply chain and an industry that are capable of delivering the parts that are required.
Now, in order to be able to do that, I think as a first big step – we’ve got to see if we can’t participate in the nuclear submarine supply chain in advance of the … Aukus submarines construction commencing later this decade. So, what we’ve negotiated with [HII], that builds the Virginia class submarines, is an opportunity for South Australian suppliers to supply to the Virginia class program.
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