Richard Spencer, the 76th US Navy secretary, discusses the Littoral Combat Ship program, the Pentagon’s FY19 budget-request highlights, the service’s upcoming 30-year shipbuilding plan, modernization, balancing efficiency and efficacy, improving training, culture change and much more during an exclusive, wide-ranging Feb. 3, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in San Diego just before the commissioning of the USS Omaha, the 12th LCS and the sixth Independence-class vessel.
