Shoebridge, Sen David

Senator SHOEBRIDGE: Is it your understanding that the numbers are on track to meet what the US Pacific command indicated—that roughly 10 per cent of the personnel on US Attack class nuclear submarines will come from Australia as part of the AUKUS arrangement? Vice Adm. Hammond : That's not an aim point for us. We are generating a trained force of nuclear qualified submariners in order to animate the sovereign Australian nuclear-powered submarine capability that we are to take custody of under the Optimal Pathway.