Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. On this special edition of the CavasShips Podcast from WEST 2023 in San Diego...we bring you highlights from the opening of Austal USA's new San Diego waterfront ship repair facility held February 13th in National City, Calif. The event brought together military and community leaders, elected officials, and representatives from across the ship repair industry.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…accurately analyzing the US Navy’s spending habits is a daunting task, but we hear from perhaps the primary practitioner of that art, Dr. Eric Labs of the Congressional Budget Office, who breaks it down for us.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…Bigger is better – at least 25 out of 28 times in naval warfare. Strategist Dr. Sam Tangredi will join us to talk about why bigger fleets win – and what the US Navy should do about it in the face of the ever-expanding Chinese Navy.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…How ready should our maritime forces and industrial base be? Also, the Marine Corps wants to buy nearly three dozen Light Amphibious Warships. The US Navy isn’t so sure. Noted commentators Bryan McGrath and Sal Mercogliano join us for an evaluation of future shipbuilding plans and industrial base readiness.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week...we heard a lot of speakers at the Surface Navy Association’s three-day symposium earlier in January. Now we give you the chance to hear some of what we heard, with press briefing excerpts from the US Navy’s top speakers, including Navy Secretary Del Toro and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Mike Gilday.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world.

SNA Wrap-Up…In our final SNA'23 podcast we share our conversation with Vago Muradian from his Defense & Aerospace Daily Podcast. During our discussion we talk about key takeaways from the conference, lessons learned and what we hope to hear in the coming weeks.

Our SNA coverage is sponsored by HII and GE Marine.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world.

SNA Day Four…We interview Chris Minster, Lockheed Martin's Chris Minster, Director, Combatant Ships, Integration & Test Programs, on the Littoral Combat Ship Lethality and Survivability Program.

Our SNA coverage is sponsored by HII and GE Marine.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world.

SNA Day Three…We interview Nate Carlson, BAE Systems Program Director of Naval Gun Systems, about the company's counter-UAS products deployed on US Navy ships.

Our SNA coverage is sponsored by HII and GE Marine.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world.

SNA Day Two…We interview Mark Bock, Vice President for Strategy for Advanced Acoustics Concepts, a Thales Company, on the CAPTAS-4 variable depth sonar that will be the center piece of the Navy's FFG-62 class ASW capability. 

Our SNA coverage is sponsored by HII and GE Marine.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world.

SNA Day One…We interview Kari Wilkinson, executive vice president of HII and president of Ingalls Shipbuilding.

Our SNA coverage is sponsored by HII and GE Marine.

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