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<p class="text-body text-muted small">The US is making investments in its submarine industrial base to help meet AUKUS and US Navy needs. (Janes/Michael Fabey)</p>
<p>Country members of the AUKUS security pact – Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States – have begun to work towards Pillar 2 of the pact, according to US officials.</p>
<p>“We have begun efforts associated with Pillar 2,” Kurt Campbell, deputy assistant to the president and co-ordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs on the National Security Council, said on 26 June during an AUKUS discussion at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.</p>
<p>Speaking during the same discussion, Admiral Michael Gilday, US chief of naval operations, said, “Examples that I can speak about involve AI [artificial intelligence] and unmanned [systems], which are closely linked. The AI being the plug on top of the water bottle, which would be the platform.”</p>
<p>Adm Gilday added, “We’re doing [unmanned] work in the Middle East. We’re about to do more in South America. And we’ll join both the Australians and the Brits for a big unmanned exercise that the Australians are going to host in the fall.”</p>
<p>At the same time, Adm Gilday said the countries are executing other elements for AUKUS.</p>
<p>“It’s a phased approach that’s been very transparent – in terms of our beginning to conduct more port visits with the Australians; to then forward deploying our submarines, perhaps up to four, near Perth; to then co-crewing those submarines with the Australians in a very deliberate manner; and then finally getting us to a point where Australia’s sovereign readying and can then take custody of the sale of US submarines, and eventually produce their own,” he said.</p>
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