Four primes form AUKUS Combat Systems Collaborative Team to pitch SSN‑AUKUS combat system

BAE Systems, Raytheon Australia, General Dynamics Mission Systems and Thales have signed a memorandum of understanding to create an AUKUS Combat Systems Collaborative Team to design a tri‑national combat and command system for Australia’s future SSN‑AUKUS submarines. The proposal offers a shared Australia–UK solution building on General Dynamics’ AN/BYG‑1 architecture used by the U.S.

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The agreement creates a single industrial pathway to develop the SSN‑AUKUS combat system and aligns Australia’s submarine architecture with AN/BYG‑1, affecting interoperability, sustainment and future upgrade roadmaps; it comes as Australia is upgrading maritime surveillance with a P‑8A Poseidon upgrade to boost submarine detection and targeting.
The MoU signals deeper trilateral industrial integration under AUKUS that could streamline technology sharing, basing and support in Australia—paralleling other multi‑partner infrastructure moves such as the deep‑space radar in Australia deployed with U.S. partners.
General Dynamics’ AN/BYG‑1‑based approach is reinforced by its maritime systems activity and recent demonstrations of GD Mission Systems working on distributed maritime sensing, such as sonobuoy deployment trials that underline the company’s operational footprint in undersea sensor integration.

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