Will another US$500m make any difference to AUKUS production?

The question of how realistic the government’s belief in AUKUS is less dependent on whether the Trump administration depends on itself.

Submarine Construction of the Virginia-Class Vessels is Mired at 1.2 a Year-To Furnish Australia with the Second-Hand Vessels Promed Under AUKUS, it Needs to be 2.3 by 2030. to replace its strategic nuclear missile platform, The Ohio-Class, the Trump Administration, Picking Up Who The Biden Administration Left Off, is Throwing Money at Trying More Boats.

Latest Investment last weekWhen the Pentagon, Virginia Class and Columbia class boats are given to General Dynamics Electric Boat, one of the two manufacturers, a change in a change in the Deniz Construction Agreement “Additional Component Development, Class Lead Courtyard Support and Subarin Industrial Base (SIB) Supplier Supporting Supplier Development Development Developments (Columbia-Class Balisting Engitation (Ford Class Aircraft Carrots) to 2031.

This comes after a 5 billion dollars to be directed to small companies in the US SIB. Australia finances some of this: Richard Marles gave Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary of the Trump Administration, a check for $ 500 million ($ 767 million) in February and the Americans are waiting one more 500 million dollars this month and this year more than 1 billion dollars.

But how quickly will billions of additional financing into a faster boat production rate? The primary problem is labor force. One OP-ED this weekMatthew Sermon, the head of the US Navy’s Maritime Base (MIB) program, warned that “the labor force crisis threatens the sea domination of America more directly than many people noticed”.

The production labor force of our country has reduced more than 30% of Americans to about 11% today. Meanwhile, the navy has started its most ambitious shipbuilding program since the 1980s. By 2028, we must deliver three submarines a year while building more than 10 surface ships at the same time, building extremely talented unmanned ships and protecting our existing fleet. This is not just a navy problem, but a national security obligation.

Biden said that the MIB program foresees the benefits of the talent pipeline program for the sector to meet the prescribed shipbuilding and fleet demands required by approximately 250,000 new skilled workers in the next decade.

It may require more than this: the US unemployment rate is still over 4%; The participation rate decreases long -term and is governed by a party that is hostile to both immigrant and hostile to higher education. And other countries Hunting for necessary skills with Build nuclear submarines. Considering the hatred of immigrants released by Trump and Maga Republicans, how many qualified workers from developing countries want to move to the United States?

There is not much time to solve this challenge: production should be lifted to two Virginia -class boats and a Columbia class by 2028 and then it needs to continue to rise to 2.3 and 1 by 2030.

It may still be necessary to make this reasonable to make it mind. Considering that the Trump administration is currently conducting a instant review of GEE, AUKUS wonders that they may be asked to contribute more than who has already given…