Almost 300 apprentices and trainees will be encouraged to swap carpentry, plumbing and electrics to maintain some of the world's most advanced nuclear submarines under the $386 billlion AUKUS agreement.
The so-called Tradie2Trainer and early-career programs are being announced on Thursday, the day after West Australian marine propulsion firm VEEM inked a national-first deal to supply Huntington Ingalls Industries, the US's largest naval shipbuilder.
