With the Ministry of Defence (MoD) describing them as landmark export control changes, the UK, United States and Australia will be able to work more closely together to develop next-generation technologies, compete with adversaries and support interoperability in the Indo-Pacific.
The three members of the AUKUS alliance will lift certain export controls and restrictions on technology sharing. This will cover up to £500 million of UK defence exports each year, and billions of dollars of trade across all three nations, helping boost UK economic growth.
This comes via the publication of the UK’s AUKUS Nations Open General Licence (OGL), combined with a new exemption to the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) for the UK and Australia, and new national exemptions for the UK and US in Australia’s export control framework.
The changes will lift license requirements for the export and sharing of certain defence products, including advanced capabilities, technical data and defence services.
This will significantly enhance collaborative opportunities between the governments and defence industries in the three countries and reduce compliance costs and delivery timelines for UK programmes.
Defence Secretary, John Healey, said: “This is a breakthrough that will allow our three nations to deepen our collaboration on defence technology and trade. Our new government will reinforce th
