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…it’s been a busy month of May in the naval world – from the lightning round of budget hearings on Capitol Hill to open controversy among senior active and retired Marines. And now of course, the need for speed is powering a dynamic Memorial Day weekend at the movies. We’ll move through all that and more.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking…

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 have a very special guest this week – former Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus. The longest-serving SECNAV ever will weigh in on several topics.

Please send us feedback by DM’ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com.

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking…

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 US Navy’s latest 30-year shipbuilding plan and newly-released Fiscal 2023 budget documents led to a flurry of comments and media stories this week – hardly any of a complimentary nature. We’ll dive into some of the details and try to discern the overall impact with defense analyst Byron Callan of the independent Washington research firm Capital Alpha Partners.

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Cavas comments on the Navy’s 30-year Shipbuilding Plan.

Please send us feedback by DM’ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com.

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 sinking of Russia’s biggest warship in the Black Sea is one of the most significant naval events of the past forty years. With naval historian Dr Phil Weir, we’ll dive into some of the naval lessons-learned so far in this brutal war and hark back to the Falklands War of 1982, where new and old weapons took a terrible toll on ships and lives.

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.  

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking…

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.

Please send us feedback by DM’ing @CavasShips or @CSSProvision or you can email chriscavas@gmail.com or cservello@defaeroreport.com.

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.