CAVASShips

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…a special edition of the podcast, where we  focus on naval history. The importance of remembering not just what happened in the past, but how and why and what lessons were learned. Even more – are the lessons historians initially took from a particular battle, for example, still the same lessons people remember today? We are joined by retired naval officers, historians and friends of the pod Gerry Roncolato and Paul Giarra.

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…while the US Navy and its commercial ship yards work together the service puts most of its repair jobs up for bid, and with competition comes risk. Now one of the largest ship repair yards on the West Coast is laying off nearly 300 employees due to a shortage of work. We’ll talk with Paul Smith, head of BAE Systems’ ship repair business, about his yards in San Diego, Norfolk and Jacksonville and the challenges of doing business with the U.S. 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…Civil jurisdiction already is replacing military jurisdiction in some cases. It’s a movement that has been taking hold not just in the United States, but in several other western and NATO countries, notably Norway, where a civil trial was just concluded in the matter of the 2018 loss of a frigate. What are some of the implications of the movement in the U.S.? We’ll talk with veteran attorney Rob Butch Bracknell for some insight.

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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 Navy’s investigation report into the command climate and quality of life aboard the aircraft carrier GEORGE WASHINGTON – prompted by a spate of suicides among the ship’s junior sailors – was made public this week, and the story is not pretty. Sam Lagrone of USNI News will join us again to talk through the report and the issues that sooner or later affect every ship in the 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…We were in Tampa at SOFWEEK where we heard from special operations command leaders and spent time talking to companies who are bringing creative solutions to the SOF Maritime world. In the discussion portion of the show we will hear from the Navy Captain responsible for bringing those solutions to life and a few of the companies who showcased their technology at the four day show.

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 small but efficient Royal Canadian Navy is in the midst of its biggest-ever peacetime naval recapitalization effort. Canada has a storied naval history that is honored each May with an observance of the Canadian Navy’s contributions to the Battle of the Atlantic. Naval historian and author Roger Roger Litwiller will be here to dive deeper into Canada’s rich naval lore.

Please send us feedback by DM’ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email [email protected] or [email protected].

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 Navy ordered two new aircraft carriers at once from Newport News Shipbuilding, and the shipyard is going to build the third and fourth ships of the Gerald R Ford class a bit differently. We’ll hear from the shipyard’s vice president in charge of construction of the future Enterprise and Doris Miller, Mr. Brian Fields about what will be different about the next carriers from the Virginia shipbuilders.

Please send us feedback by DM’ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email [email protected] or [email protected].

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…Navy budget testimony is in full swing on Capitol Hill, one senator is holding up more than a hundred DoD confirmations, and the Naval Academy gets its first female nominee to become superintendent. Plus SpaceX and “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.” Sam LaGrone of USNI News joins us to unwrap it all.

Please send us feedback by DM’ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email [email protected] or [email protected].

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’ve been on the road - to the Navy League’s three-day Sea-Air-Space symposium just outside Washington DC, and to Norfolk. We’ll dive into what we saw and heard and also review some of the week’s other naval developments.

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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. Our show coverage of Sea-Air-Space is sponsored by Huntington Ingalls Industries, GE Marine & Helicon Chemical.

Today we’re speaking with Mark Vandroff, CEO, Fincantieri Marinette Marine & Fred Pasquine, president, Fairlead Integrated.