Two senior naval officers have been tasked by Prime Minister Scott Morrison to examine options for Australia’s submarine fleet, amid ongoing tensions with the French over the $90 billion future submarine program.

As Naval Group’s global chief executive Pierre-Eric Pommelet arrives in Canberra on Wednesday for crunch talks with Defence Minister Linda Reynolds and Finance Minister Simon Birmingham over the project, sources say Mr Morrison is questioning the scope of the major shipbuilding programs as costs spiral by billions of dollars.