Staff upheaval and frustrations with leadership are emerging inside the new government agency overseeing the $368 billion AUKUS project.
The head of Australia's submarine agency has acknowledged staff turnover but insists the $368 billion AUKUS project is on track.
AUKUS was first unveiled in 2021 by former prime minister Scott Morrison and aims to deliver a nuclear submarine capability for Australia Admiral Mead has rejected suggestions of cultural problems within his agency as pressure from AUKUS deadlines loom, telling the ABC: "Some of our people have been in the program for three and a half years and that is a long time to be in the program."
Privately, US officials have also expressed alarm at the slow progress in preparing for the stationing of nuclear-powered submarines out of Western Australia, under Submarine Rotational Force-West, and the transfer of second-hand boats in the 2030s.
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