Originally Posted by
Navaleye
HMG has awarded BWOS and RR £85m for initial studies for the SSNR project replacing the Astute class. Coincidence?
Probably. They are at least learning that you need to keep design teams constituted and functioning, otherwise we get a repeat of Astute (and T26 and potentially Dreadnought). In the context of a nuclear submarine programme, it's not a huge amount. For example at £55M pa, that's about 15% of one DAYS NHS spend.
For comparison - that £170M is
less than the Assessment Phase contract award to BAES for T26 back in 2010 or so. That assessment phase that went so well a four year game of chicken then ensued between MoD and BAES over who was going to pay the additional amount.....