AUKUS: Technology
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 81 of his Department’s Strategic Defence Review, published 2 June 2025, what progress he has made on using AUKUS Pillar 2 to test and develop a template for future technology partnerships.
Answered by Ministry of Defence
The first AUKUS Pillar II Signature Project, developing cutting-edge payloads for nations’ Uncrewed Undersea Vehicles, is demonstrating how trusted allies can work together on advanced technologies. It is testing the core features of a future technology partnership, including shared priorities and requirements from the outset, interoperability by design, early industry involvement, and export control and technology sharing reforms.
Additionally, the Maritime Big Play exercise series under Pillar II provides an operational testing ground to integrate and demonstrate autonomous and uncrewed maritime technologies into interoperable and interchangeable capabilities.
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