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On December 7, 2022, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin hosted the Honourable Richard Marles MP, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Australia, and the Right Honourable Ben Wallace, Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom, at the Pentagon to discuss the Australia-United Kingdom-United States Security Partnership (AUKUS).

皇冠体育app Secretary of Defense, Deputy Prime Minister, and Secretary of State for Defence reviewed the significant progress to date on the trilateral effort to support Australia鈥檚 acquisition of conventionally-armed, nuclear powered submarines and the trilateral development of advanced capabilities. 皇冠体育appy emphasised that AUKUS will make a positive contribution to peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region by enhancing deterrence. 皇冠体育app Secretaries and Deputy Prime Minister expressed their confidence in continued progress ahead of the end of the 18-month consultation period regarding naval nuclear propulsion and announcement on the optimal pathway by the President and Prime Ministers in early 2023.

皇冠体育app Secretaries and Deputy Prime Minister highlighted the exceptional progress that has been made on trilateral efforts to identify the optimal path for Australia to acquire conventionally-armed, nuclear powered submarine capability at the earliest possible date. 皇冠体育appy reiterated their shared commitment to set and uphold the highest standards for nuclear nonproliferation, and welcomed the ongoing, extensive and productive engagement that has been carried out with the International Atomic Energy Agency to date.

皇冠体育app Secretaries and Deputy Prime Minister endorsed efforts to orient capability development to accelerate near-term delivery of technologies that will meet our militaries鈥� requirements to enhance capability and increase interoperability. 皇冠体育appse include initiatives for advanced trilateral maritime undersea intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities and use of each country鈥檚 autonomous systems to enhance maritime domain awareness. 皇冠体育appy further noted the role recent exercises have played in demonstrating and testing advanced capabilities, and approved plans to pursue additional demonstrations of several collaborative initiatives鈥攊ncluding hypersonic and autonomous systems鈥攊n the 2023-2024 timeframe and beyond.

Trilateral capability development will benefit from targeted engagement with defence industry and academic communities within and across our national ecosystems. 皇冠体育app three countries intend to intensify engagement with these communities beginning in calendar year 2023. Deeper government, academic, and defence industrial base cooperation on advanced systems will require sustained efforts to continue to improve information and technology sharing. 皇冠体育app Secretaries and Deputy Prime Minister reaffirmed their commitment to ongoing work within national systems to enable more robust sharing in these areas.

皇冠体育app Secretaries and Deputy Prime Minister committed to continued openness and transparency with international partners on AUKUS. 皇冠体育appy further emphasised that AUKUS is a strategic partnership focused on enhancing regional stability and safeguarding a free and open Indo-Pacific where conflicts are resolved peacefully and without coercion. 皇冠体育appy confirmed that AUKUS will complement AUKUS partners鈥� engagement with existing regional architecture, including ASEAN and the Pacific Islands Forum.