US submarine industrial base can and will support AUKUS – Pentagon official

The U.S. submarine industrial base can and will support the AUKUS project to supply Australia with nuclear-powered submarines and will itself be strengthened by that project, a senior Pentagon official said in prepared testimony on Wednesday. Mara Karlin, the acting deputy under secretary of defense for policy, made the statement in testimony for a hearing of a subcommittee of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, during a visit to Washington by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. "AUKUS contributes to building a more robust defense industrial base ecosystem that contributes to integrated deterrence; and … the submarine industrial base can and will support AUKUS," her testimony said.