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…There’s a lot going on around the US Navy and a lot to discuss. We’ll dive into some of those areas, including the Pentagon’s Replicator initiative and the possible long-term effects of the high pace of carrier deployments.

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…We talk fleet size, force posture and budget priorities with long-time defense thinker and author Mackenzie Eaglen of American Enterprise Institute.

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…attracting and keeping officers and sailors to the US Navy’s surface fleet is a never-ending challenge. New executive director Christopher Bushnell of the Surface Navy Association is with us to talk about the challenges and promises on the eve of a career at sea.

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…there were more Houthi attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, as well as counterattacks and preemptive strikes by the US and its allies–we discuss the latest with Sal Mercogliano of What is Going on With Shipping and gCaptain’s John Konrad.

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 was a busy week for both of us at the Surface Navy Association’s 36th annual symposium just outside Washington DC. During the show we sat down with Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Admiral Rick Cheeseman for an update on recruitment, retention and quality of life issues for sailors, and with Larry Ryder of Austal USA for more on the Alabama shipbuilder’s growing portfolio of ship construction.

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…One of the key companies crucial to the development and fielding autonomous surface vessels is Leidos. Two of that company’s top officials, Dave Lewis, senior vice president of the Maritime Business and Dan Brintzinghoffer, vice president in the Maritime Systems Division, are with us to shed some light not just into the complexities of developing ships able to operate without people aboard, but also what they’re ready to do – today.

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…2023 in review. We’re joined by the entire gang from USNI News to look back at some of the biggest and most significant naval developments of the past year. Chief editor Sam LaGrone, deputy editor Mallory Shelbourne and journalist Heather Mongilio will also let us in on what they expect to see in 2024.

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 more than 70 years since the United States dropped from being the world’s largest producer of merchant shipping and the country’s maritime industry fell into a precipitous decline. Today the U.S. owns only about 3 percent of the 55,000 ships in the global commercial fleet, dominated by foreign owned-and-managed companies. China alone produces more than half the commercial ships delivered each year. What should be done about it? What can be done? Veteran maritime industry executive Michael Roberts joins us for a deep dive into some of the issues surrounding this deeply complex issue.

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…With several US destroyers seeing action recently in the Red Sea,   retired Navy Captain and former Cruiser and Destroyer commanding officer Dave Snee walks us through the challenges of modern sea combat in confined and constrained waters against known and unknown threats.

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