What happened
- Planned facilities include out-of-water depot-level and contingency maintenance, a floating contingency dry dock, shipbuilding for larger vessels and a surface fleet sustainment yard.
- Leidos Gibbs & Cox Australia has been selected for preliminary design of the floating dry dock.
- With Osborne and HMAS Stirling, the sites are expected to support around 10,000 jobs over two decades.
Why it matters
A dedicated surface fleet sustainment yard means a long pipeline of maintenance periods, each with seawater, chilled water and fuel systems to return to service on time.
SI briefing summarising public reporting by Australian Submarine Agency. Figures are as reported by the source.
