Program · Outcome 2: Protect and advance Australia’s strategic interests through the provision of strategic policy, the development, delivery and sustainment of military, intelligence and enabling capabilities, and the promotion of regional and global security and stability as directed by Government.
Program 2.16 Nuclear-Powered Submarines
Protect and advance Australia’s national interests through the acquisition, delivery, construction, technical governance, sustainment and disposal of Australia’s nuclear-powered submarine capability, via the AUKUS partnership, as directed by Government.
Department of Defence, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 96 reported
$2.4bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$2.6bn (−51.5%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expenditure funded by appropriations | departmental | $5.0bn | $2.4bn | −$2.6bn −51.5% | reported | Table 16: Total Budgeted Resources Available for Outcome 2, row 329 |
| Revenues from other sources | departmental | $0 | $0 | no change – | reported | Table 16: Total Budgeted Resources Available for Outcome 2, row 328 |