The Pentagon has completed its review of the AUKUS project to provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines and has found areas to put the deal on the "strongest possible footing," a U.S. official said on Thursday.

President Donald Trump's administration said in June it had launched a formal review into the AUKUS defense deal, worth hundreds of billions of dollars and also involving Britain - and a U.S. official said the outcome is expected to be discussed next week at a meeting in Washington of the U.S. and Australian defense and foreign ministers. Washington is also expected to later host a trilateral ministerial meeting involving Britain.

"Consistent with President Trump's guidance that AUKUS should move 'full steam ahead,' the review identified opportunities to put AUKUS on the s

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