WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The nominee to be the Pentagon’s senior official for the Indo-Pacific region said on Tuesday the U.S. Defense Department was continuing to conduct a review of the AUKUS project to provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines.
John Noh, who is serving at the Pentagon as deputy assistant secretary for East Asia and has been nominated to be assistant secretary, said U.S. submarine production needs to rise from 1.2 Virginia-class submarines a year to 2.33 annually to meet AUKUS obligations.
He said there were things the AUKUS partners – the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom – can do to make AUKUS more sustainable and be believed Pentagon Under Secretary Elbridge Colby and Defense chief Pete Hegseth would have the opportunity to discuss specific recommendations on this.
(Reporting by David Brunnstrom)
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