The Government has held its fourth Product of Concern Summit in Canberra on Monday 2 March 2026 to support the sustainment of Australia\u2019s Collins class submarines.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was pleased to convene the fourth Product of Concern summit for the Collins class submarine fleet today. This process helps ensure Australia has a highly-capable conventional submarine fleet for many years to come, and as we transition to nuclear-powered submarines,” Minister for Defence Industry, Pat Conroy, said.<\/p>\n
Minister Conroy convened the summit alongside Minister for Finance, Senator Katy Gallagher, and senior representatives from government and industry.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy bringing Defence and industry together on a regular basis, we maintain oversight and transparency of the capabilities required by the Australian Defence Force to preserve peace and deter conflict,” Minister Conroy stated.<\/p>\n
Since being listed as a Product of Concern in December 2024, Defence and the contractor, ASC, have developed a remediation plan for the sustainment of the Collins class.<\/p>\n
This plan, it is hoped, will ensure Collins class submarines remain among the most capable conventionally powered submarines in the world.<\/p>\n
Since the revitalisation of Defence\u2019s Projects and Products of Concern process in 2022, the Government has strengthened the oversight and remediation of defence projects.<\/p>\n
Remediation is being achieved through targeted workforce initiatives, process improvements and productivity reform.<\/p>\n
The Product of Concern framework has continued to play a crucial role in driving cooperation, accountability and sustained action across government and industry.<\/p>\n
This is the twelfth Project of Concern Summit since May 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Government has held its fourth Product of Concern Summit in Canberra on Monday 2 March 2026 to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-514812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}