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…Both of us attended the US Navy League’s three-day Sea Air Space gathering just outside Washington DC. We saw a lot and we heard a lot, and we’ll talk about our takeaways.  

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Cavas has some advice for Navy leaders as they seek to get rid of ships.

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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. In conjunction with the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Global Maritime Exposition we present this special edition of the CavasShips Podcast focusing on a single defense supplier. Our show coverage of Sea-Air-Space is sponsored by Huntington Ingalls Industries.

Today we feature BAE Systems Ship Repair, and with us is Paul Smith, the division’s vice president and general manager.

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. In conjunction with the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Global Maritime Exposition we present this special edition of the CavasShips Podcast focusing on a single defense supplier. Our show coverage of Sea-Air-Space is sponsored by Huntington Ingalls Industries.

Today we feature Lockheed Martin’s Integrated Warfare Systems and Sensors business and its vice president and general manager, Jon Rambeau.

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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. In conjunction with the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Global Maritime Exposition we present this special edition of the CavasShips Podcast focusing on a single defense supplier. Our show coverage of Sea-Air-Space is sponsored by Huntington Ingalls Industries.

Today we feature General Atomics, joining us is Doug Hardison, Vice President for Strategic Development in the Aeronautical Systems business division.

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. In conjunction with the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Global Maritime Exposition we present this special edition of the CavasShips Podcast focusing on a single defense supplier. Our show coverage of Sea-Air-Space is sponsored by Huntington Ingalls Industries.

Today we’re speaking with Kari Wilkinson, executive vice president of Huntington Ingalls Industries and president of Ingalls Shipbuilding - the shipyard that builds more ships for the US Navy than any other.

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…the Biden administration sent its $773 billion-dollar fiscal 2023 Pentagon budget request to Congress on March 28 and the best thing to say about it is – few people are happy with it. We’ll peel out some of the details of a Navy budget that seems to have enough to offend everyone.

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Servello has some budget advice for Navy leaders.

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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…Russia’s war in Ukraine continues to rage, with an end to the fighting nowhere in sight. But at some point the fighting will stop and -- what then? The naval and strategic significance of the Black Sea is likely to drastically change and take on an added significance in any sort of standoff between Russia, NATO and the US. We’ll talk over some of the issues and the often tortured history of this waterway from a noted expert on the region, Professor Ryan Gingeras of the Naval Postgraduate School.

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Cavas discusses the big importance of small vessels.

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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...Is the US Navy an effective advocate for seapower? Is it an effective advocate for itself? The question isn’t new - the service has been struggling with the issue for decades. We’ll talk with Ryan Wadle, the author of a remarkable book that examines the history of US Navy public relations between the World Wars, and who found many striking similarities between the issues of the 1920s and 1930s and today.

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Servello discusses the Navy’s communications strategy.

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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…Russia’s war on Ukraine continues with no letup and it is clear the world’s political and military landscape is changing. We’ll talk with two great guests, Bryan McGrath and Jerry Hendrix, about what it all could mean for naval warfare, and also take a look at the just-approved 2022 defense spending bill.

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Cavas thanks Congress for doing their job.

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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…the world’s attention remains focused on Russia’s war on Ukraine, a conflict that undoubtedly will affect the military and defense calculations of all the world’s significant powers. What will change? What has changed already? We’ll talk with a key member of the House Armed Services Committee, Representative Mike Gallagher, who also represents the Wisconsin district where the US Navy’s Freedom-class littoral combat ships are built.

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Servello discusses the need to learn lessons from Ukraine.

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