Australia's Domestic Submarine Design Capabilities: Options for the Future Submarine

Abstract

Australia will need a domestic workforce of roughly 1,000 skilled draftsmen and engineers in industry and Government to create and oversee the design of a new, conventionally powered submarine for the Royal Australian Navy. Such a workforce does not exist in Australia today, but one could be cultivated over the next 15 to 20 years under the right circumstances. By collaborating with foreign design partners rather than relying exclusively on a domestic design workforce, Australia could shorten the duration and lessen the costs of designing a new submarine.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA586957

Entities

People

  • Gordon T. Lee

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Australia
  • Corporations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Domestic
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Governments
  • Health Care
  • Homeland Security
  • Intellectual Property
  • Law
  • Load Monitoring
  • National Security
  • Navy
  • Security
  • Submarine Design
  • Submarines

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Economics
  • Electrical Engineering